Articles published in Antiquarian HorologyVolumes 1-29

December 1953 - June 2008

VOLUME 1 1953

Vol.1/1Roll of Founder members ............................................................................................................................................ 3No Real Night by H Alan Lloyd ................................................................................................................................. 4An Unorthodox Watch by C S Jagger........................................................................................................................ 6The Tower of Babel by John W Castle ...................................................................................................................... 7

Vol.1/2A neglected Chapter by T P Camerer Cuss .............................................................................................................. 10A Viennese Flower-Vase Clock by Dr H von Bertele .............................................................................................. 13Bejamin Lewis Vulliamy by S Benson Beevers ....................................................................................................... 1515th & 16th Century Clocks by C B Drover................................................................................................................ 17Early Oxford Clockmakers by Dr C F C Beeson ...................................................................................................... 19

Vol.1/3The Huygens Collection by F A B Ward ................................................................................................................... 23The Pinchbecks by F H Knowles-Brown ................................................................................................................... 26Captain Cook’s Cabin Clock by R K Foulkes ........................................................................................................... 29The Percy Webster Collection by James Oakes ....................................................................................................... 31Ancient Turret Clocks – Lecture notes given by R P Howgrave-Graham............................................................ 33W D’s Dial by C F C Beeson ....................................................................................................................................... 34

Vol.1/4Robert Seignior by Cedric S Jagger ........................................................................................................................... 39Clocks of the Netherlands by E J Tyler .................................................................................................................... 44Clock Masterpieces by Ronald A Lee ........................................................................................................................ 47The Earliest Clock Illustration by C B Drover ........................................................................................................ 49Tompion Turret Clock report of informal discussion .............................................................................................. 50

Vol.1/5A Medieval Monastic Water-Clock by C B Drover .................................................................................................. 54Automatic Music in Miniature by John E T Clark .................................................................................................. 59Samuel Watson by H Alan Lloyd ............................................................................................................................... 60The Percy Webster Collection by James Oakes ....................................................................................................... 62New light on Ancient Turret Clocks by R P Howgrave-Graham ........................................................................... 64The Tic-Tac Escapement by D W Parkes .................................................................................................................. 66

Vol.1/6Planetaria by Dr C A Crommelin .............................................................................................................................. 70Benjamin Gray by S Benson-Beevers ....................................................................................................................... 76A Tompion Broadsheet by C A Ilbert ........................................................................................................................ 78Watch and Clockmakers’ Design Books by J F Hayward....................................................................................... 80Dondi’s Astronomical Clock by H A Alan Lloyd ...................................................................................................... 83

Vol.1/7Mechanical Pictures by T P Camerer Cuss .............................................................................................................. 89The Webster Family by Bruce Maclean .................................................................................................................... 93Talks at Informal Meeting by F W Palmer & C Janca ........................................................................................... 97The Farmyard Cock by Col A S Bates ....................................................................................................................... 99

Vol.1/8Tompion & Graham Timepieces by R K Foulkes..................................................................................................... 105The Webster family (Conclusion) by Bruce Maclean .............................................................................................. 109The Jaquemart Clock of Dijon by John W Castle .................................................................................................... 113A Rare Portable Sundial by F A B Ward .................................................................................................................. 115

Vol.1/9Equation Clock Inventions of Jos. Williamson by H V Bertele ............................................................................. 123Five Centuries of British Timekeeping by Cecil Clutton ....................................................................................... 128George Etherington by Cedric Jagger ....................................................................................................................... 133Two Interesting Discoveries in the Gershom Parkington collection by S Benson Beevers ............................... 136

Vol.1/10Francois Justin Vulliamy by S Benson Beevers ...................................................................................................... 142Visits to the Great Collections by Cecil Clutton ...................................................................................................... 146A Sussex Turret Clock by Rev A J Nixseaman ........................................................................................................ 148Thomas Dallam’s Organ Clock by C B Drover ......................................................................................................... 150Chinese Astronomical Clockwork by Dr J Needham .............................................................................................. 153

Vol.1/11A Turret Clock by W Clement by F A B Ward ......................................................................................................... 159The Rt Hon Lord Harris .............................................................................................................................................. 160John Thwaites by G E T Buggins & E B M Devereux ............................................................................................ 161Congreve Clocks by T A S Drake ............................................................................................................................... 164Visits to Great Collections by Cecil Clutton ............................................................................................................. 165An interesting Equation Dial by H Alan Lloyd ....................................................................................................... 167Courtenay A Ilbert ....................................................................................................................................................... 168

Vol.1/12Urban Jurgensen by Cedric Jagger ........................................................................................................................... 177Visits to great Collections by Cecil Clutton .............................................................................................................. 181An Unusual Watch by T P Camerer Cuss ................................................................................................................ 183Huygens Tercentenary Exhibition............................................................................................................................. 185Halleicher’s Singing Clock by John W Castle .......................................................................................................... 187

VOLUME 2 1956

Vol.2/1Salisbury & the West-Country Clocks by R P Howgrave-Graham ....................................................................... 2Visits to Great Collections by Cecil Clutton ............................................................................................................. 8An early Tompion Timepiece by J Burleigh James ................................................................................................. 12The Origin of the Differential Gear by H v Bertele................................................................................................. 14Pendulum Tercentenary Exhibition .......................................................................................................................... 16

Vol.2/2Early New England Clocks by Wm King Covell ...................................................................................................... 21Huygen’s Tercentenary Exhibition by Michael Hurst ............................................................................................ 25Visits to Great Collections by Cecil Clutton ............................................................................................................. 29Benjamin Vulliamy by S Benson-Beevers ................................................................................................................ 31

Vol.2/3Bohemian Clock by Dr H v Bertele ........................................................................................................................... 41The Wadham College Clock by Dr C F C Beeson .................................................................................................... 47Visits to Great Collections by Cecil Clutton ............................................................................................................. 51Lady Fielding’s Watch repairs by Alan Lloyd .......................................................................................................... 53

Vol.2/4The AHS in Switzerland by F Knowles-Brown ........................................................................................................ 60Musical Boxes and Automata by Graham Hodgetts ............................................................................................... 65Visits to Great Collections by Cecil Clutton ............................................................................................................. 70Extracts from London in 1710 .................................................................................................................................... 76

Vol.2/5Swiss Turret Clocks by C F C Beeson ....................................................................................................................... 78Watches in Switzerland by Vaudrey Mercer ............................................................................................................ 82Visits to Collections by Cecil Clutton ........................................................................................................................ 8618th Century Whimsy by John W Castle ................................................................................................................... 89Novel Striking Mechanism by H P R Wallbridge .................................................................................................... 90Automata at Salisbury by R P Howgrave-Graham ................................................................................................. 91

Vol.2/6Richard Greene’s Litchfield Museum by Cedric Jagger ......................................................................................... 98A Tompion Travelling Clock by R K Foulkes ........................................................................................................... 103Visits to Collections - The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Cecil Clutton .......................................................... 106AHS Visit to the British Museum .............................................................................................................................. 109

Vol.2/7The Winterthur Astronomical Clock, by K. Kellenburger ...................................................................................... 118Cumberland's first Horologist, by John B. Penfold ................................................................................................. 122Sir William Congreve's Free Pendulum Clock, by Cecil Clutton .......................................................................... 125Leonardo da Vinci and the Clock of Giovanni de Dondi by Derek J. de S. Price ................................................ 127A Gravity Escapement, by K. Younghusband .......................................................................................................... 129

Vol.2/8The Clock and the Pendulum, by Enrico Morpurg .................................................................................................. 138Some West Country Clockmakers, by J.K. Bellchambers ...................................................................................... 144Astrology and the Clock, by A.K. Soper .................................................................................................................... 146Visits to collections (Lord Harris and Bernard Watkins) ....................................................................................... 148

Vol.2/9The Ilbert Collection .................................................................................................................................................... 160Watches by Cecil Clutton ............................................................................................................................................ 174

Vol.2/10Visits to Collections Cecil Clutton ............................................................................................................................. 187Cuckoo Clocks by T P Camerer Cuss ........................................................................................................................ 190Liechti Clocks by Hans v Bertele ............................................................................................................................... 195The Elskamp Collection by F A B Ward ................................................................................................................... 198

Vol.2/111959 Clocks in Russian Museums, by Ernest Zinner ............................................................................................. 206Visits to Collections, by Cecil Clutton ....................................................................................................................... 210Journeyman Clocks, by Norman Rabson .................................................................................................................. 212Rev William Ludlum's Clock, by H. Alan Lloyd ...................................................................................................... 215Marriage Allegations of 17th Cent Clockmakers .................................................................................................... 220

Vol.2/121959 AHS tour of Germany, by F.A.B. Ward ........................................................................................................... 227Visits to Collections, by Cecil Clutton ....................................................................................................................... 232The Burgundy Clock, by H. Alan Lloyd .................................................................................................................... 235Early Clock Discovery, by H. v. Bertele .................................................................................................................... 237

VOLUME 3 1959

Vol. 3/1Gossage's Patent Alarum, by Cedric Jagger ............................................................................................................ 6Japanese Clocks, by P.G. Coole .................................................................................................................................. 8Visits to Collections, by Cecil Clutton ....................................................................................................................... 14Turret Clocks on the German tour, by C.F.C. Beeson ............................................................................................ 17Marriage Allegations by F.K. Challen ...................................................................................................................... 19Clockmaking in Malta, by H. Alan Lloyd ................................................................................................................. 22

Vol.3/2Watches seen on the German Tour, by T.P.C. Cuss................................................................................................ 36History of the Pendulum Watch by Bernard Caillard ............................................................................................ 4117th Century Nun Watchmakers, by C.C. Baines................................................................................................... 43Mudges in the West Country, by J.K. Bellchambers .............................................................................................. 45Second Mudge Lever Watch, by Cecil Clutton ......................................................................................................... 47

Vol.3/3Sand-glass Sand, by C.B. Drover P.A. Sabine, C. Tyler & P.G. Coole .................................................................. 62Izaac Thuret, by George Foster .................................................................................................................................. 73Visits to Collections, by Cecil Clutton ....................................................................................................................... 76

Vol.3/4Conical Pendulums, by T.A.S. Drake ........................................................................................................................ 94Bells and Bellfounding, by Douglas Hughe .............................................................................................................. 96The Ellicotts, by R.K. Foulkes .................................................................................................................................... 102

Vol.3/5King Edward III’s Clocks, by R. Allen Brown .......................................................................................................... 124Two early Lever Watches, by Cecil Clutton ............................................................................................................. 127Clocks at the Antique Dealers Fair ........................................................................................................................... 130John Knibb, by C.F.C.Beeson ..................................................................................................................................... 132An unusual Austrian Plate Clock, by F.A.B. Ward ................................................................................................. 136

Vol.3/6The Yellow Emperors South Pointing Chariot, by A.C. Bird ................................................................................. 152An Ample Year for Watch Collectors, by Cedric Jagger ......................................................................................... 155Marriage Allegations ................................................................................................................................................... 163American Clocks, 1780-1840, by Donald K. Packard .............................................................................................. 164A Watch by S.M., by T.P. Camerer Cuss .................................................................................................................. 168The Origin of the Mystery Clock, by C. Blair and F.A.B. Ward ............................................................................ 170Larcum Kendall's Pivoted Detent Escapement, by Cecil Clutton ......................................................................... 172

Vol.3/7Horology at Burlington House Part II ...................................................................................................................... 174An Ample Year for Watch Collectors, by Cedric Jagger ......................................................................................... 188Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio's Astronomical Clock of 1364, by H. Alan Lloyd .................................................. 197Some European Anticipations of American Clock Features by E.J. Tyler........................................................... 200Late 19th Century Hand Watch Making .................................................................................................................. 205Josiah Emery's No 1 Marine Timekeeper, by Cecil Clutton .................................................................................. 206Knibb and the Anchor Escapement, by C.F.C. Beeson ........................................................................................... 208Postscript to German Tour 1959 ................................................................................................................................ 210

Vol.3/8Did Julien Le Roy make the first detached Lever Escapement, by Robert A. Miles .......................................... 224The Austrian Tour, by Cecil Clutton ......................................................................................................................... 231A Victorian Mystery Clock, by Anthony Bird........................................................................................................... 236

Vol.3/9AHS Austrian Tour, Watches by Robert H.A. Miles ............................................................................................... 252AHS Austrian Tour, Turret Clocks by C.F.C. Beeson............................................................................................. 255AHS Austrian Tour, Clocks by F.A.B. Ward ............................................................................................................ 257The Dennison and Wheeler Watch Collections by Cedric Jagger ......................................................................... 262The Chronometer Experiment by W.J. Gazeley ...................................................................................................... 267

Vol.3/10Old Turret Clocks in Surrey, T.O. Robinson East Horsley and Yateley .............................................................. 2651962 The Dennison and Wheeler Watch collections (Part II)by Cedric Jagger ................................................. 284Some New Documents in the History of Horology, by Henri Michel .................................................................... 288The Turret Clocks of Rye Church, by E.J. Tyler...................................................................................................... 292Henricus Jones Londini, by Percy G. Dawson ......................................................................................................... 298

Vol.3/111962 Peter Litherland and Co, by Dr Vaudrey Mercer........................................................................................... 316Rye Church Clock......................................................................................................................................................... 324Clocks in Early Churchwarden's Accounts, by C.F.C. Beeson ............................................................................... 325The King of Spain's Watch, by George Daniels ....................................................................................................... 328The First Mechanical Escapement, by Cecil Clutton .............................................................................................. 332

Vol.3/121962 An Early Medieval Water Clock, by Francis Maddison, Bryan Scott and Alan Kent .............................. 348The Life of William Clement, by John B. Penfold ................................................................................................... 354The Brussels Miniature, by C.B. Drover .................................................................................................................. 357The 15th Century Clock at Cotehele House, by Cecil Clutton............................................................................... 362Sundials, by F.A.B. Ward ........................................................................................................................................... 365

VOLUME 4 1962

Vol.4/1English Provincial Clockmaking, by Ernest L. Edwardes ..................................................................................... 8Directions for the Management of a Watch .............................................................................................................. 16The Will of Isaack Pluvier, by John C. Stevens ....................................................................................................... 18Prest's Keyless Work, by L.E. Christmas ................................................................................................................. 23

Vol.4/2Charles Gretton, by John C. Stevens ........................................................................................................................ 40Some Notes on the Prest Family, by C.A. Osborne ................................................................................................. 46A Watch by Thomas Prest, by L.E. Christmas ........................................................................................................ 47A Clock by Samuel Aldworth, by C.F.C. Beeson ...................................................................................................... 48Antiquarian Horology in Namur, by H. von Bertele ............................................................................................... 50

Vol.4/3The Astronomical Clock of Lyons, by the late John W. Castle .............................................................................. 72French Carriage Clocks, by A.B. Dickie.................................................................................................................... 77Time, Ships and Civilisation, by D.W. Waters ........................................................................................................ 81Some Tudor Clockmakers, by C.F.C. Beeson ........................................................................................................... 86Some Notes on the Arnold Family, by C.A. Osborne .............................................................................................. 89

Vol.4/4The 1963 AHS Tour of Northern Italy & Switzerland, by T.P. Camerer Cuss ................................................... 106Julien Le Roy's Lever Revived, by Cecil Clutton ..................................................................................................... 108Early Timekeepers at Sea, by Susanna Nockolds ................................................................................................... 110A Chronometer Deck Watch by Brockbanks, by L.E. Christmas .......................................................................... 114Clock and Watchmaking in Deptford, Greenwich and Lewisham, by C.A. Osborne .......................................... 116A Clock-Watch by John Barnett London .................................................................................................................. 118

Vol.4/5Clocks seen on the Swiss Italian Tours 1963, by F.A.B. Ward .............................................................................. 134Wood Framed Church Clocks, by C.F.C. Beeson ..................................................................................................... 139Early Timekeepers at Sea (Continued), by Susanna Nockolds ............................................................................. 148

Vol.4/61964 Andre‚ Hessen's Verge Lever Escapement, by Dr Vaudrey Mercer............................................................. 170An Interesting Barraud Chronometer, by Robert H. A. Miles............................................................................... 173The Ancient Town Hall Clock of Prague in Changing Times, by Dr Karl Fischer ............................................. 174The Great Clock of Prague, by the late John W. Castle ......................................................................................... 176Watches seen on the Swiss and Italian Tours, by Robert H. A. Miles ................................................................. 178Clock shown in 17th Century Carving, by G.B. Hodgetts ...................................................................................... 182

Vol.4/7The Knibb Family, Clockmakers, by Ronald A. Lee ............................................................................................... 201The Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, by P.G. Coole .................................................................................................. 210Watch By E.F. Ashley, by L.E. Christmas ............................................................................................................... 212Deck Watch by Margetts, by L.E. Christmas ........................................................................................................... 216Visit to Chester............................................................................................................................................................. 217

Vol.4/8The Knibb Family, Clockmakers, by Ronald A. Lee ............................................................................................... 232A Watch by Charles Frodsham, by L.E. Christmas ................................................................................................ 239Derbyshire Clockmakers before 1850, by W. Douglas White................................................................................. 240The History of Timing and Regulating, by W.J. Gazeley ....................................................................................... 246Weight Clocks at Chester, by Earnest L. Edwards ................................................................................................. 248

Vol.4/9French Lantern Clocks, by W.F.J. Hana .................................................................................................................. 266A Marine Chronometer with a very unusual form of Escapement, by G.R. Rose and R. McV. Weston ......... 270A Clock by John Hawting, Oxford, by C.F.C. Beeson ............................................................................................. 273John Ellicott - Clockmaker or Clock Designer?, by G. Buggins............................................................................. 275The Earliest Illustration of a Watch, by F.A.B. Ward ............................................................................................ 278The Hour Tubes of Derby Cathedral Clock, by J.E. Locke ..................................................................................... 281

Vol.4/101965 A Chronometer by Breguet, Neveu et Cie, by L. Appleby............................................................................. 298A Korean 17th Century Armillary Clock, by J.H. Combridge ............................................................................... 300A Domestic Chronometer, by G.C. Spencer .............................................................................................................. 302A clock by Henry Harper, by C.H. Wheeler .............................................................................................................. 304More Thoughts on Mudge, by Cecil Clutton ............................................................................................................. 306

Vol.4/11The Silver Swan by T.P. Camerer Cuss .................................................................................................................... 330Another "New" Lever Watch - Ellicott No 9927, by Charles Allix ........................................................................ 335Clocks at Bruton Place, by Michael Hurst ............................................................................................................... 338A Distinguished Continental Clock Rediscovered, by F.A.B. Ward ...................................................................... 343

Vol.4/12A History of Repeating Watches, by Francis Wadsworth ...................................................................................... 364An Extraordinary Clock by "Mr Barny" .................................................................................................................... 368Did Dondi use Iron, by Alan Lloyd ............................................................................................................................ 371A Clock-watch by Michael Nouwen, by C.F.C. Beeson ........................................................................................... 372A Clock Lover’s Exhibition, by T.O. Robinson ......................................................................................................... 375Horology in Hungary, by A. Horvath ........................................................................................................................ 376

VOLUME 5 1965

Vol.5/1Clocks seen on the French Tours, 1965, by E.E.J. Trundell & F.A.B. Ward ....................................................... 10The Clocks of Peterborough Cathedral, by C.F.C. Beeson ..................................................................................... 17Robin's "Revolutionary Lever Watch No 3", by Cedric Jagger .............................................................................. 21A History of Repeating Watches (Continued), by Francis Wadsworth ................................................................ 24

Vol.5/2The Upside Down Regulator, by G.H. Bell ............................................................................................................... 44A History of Repeating Watches (continued), by Francis Wadsworth.................................................................. 48Le Roy and the Lever Escapement Some New Evidence? by Cecil Clutton ........................................................ 53Sylvain Mairet, by Philip Mairet ............................................................................................................................... 55

Vol.5/3The Exeter Lovelace Clock, by Alan Smith .............................................................................................................. 78A Clock Watch by Quare, by A.G. Randall ............................................................................................................... 86A Six Hour Dial Watch, by C.F.C. Beeson ................................................................................................................ 89A History of Repeating Watches (continued), by Francis Wadsworth.................................................................. 90The S.E. Prestige horological Collection ................................................................................................................... 93The Birmingham Clock Dial Makers, by C.A. Osborne .......................................................................................... 94A Transitional Japanese Clock .................................................................................................................................. 97

Vol.5/4A Chapter in the Life of John Arnold, by Vaudrey Mercer .................................................................................... 116A 14th Century Portable Sundial, by F.A.B. Ward ................................................................................................. 124Mr John Arnold's Specification, by Cecil Clutton .................................................................................................... 125An Impossible Clock, by Anthony Bird ..................................................................................................................... 127A Document about Konrad Kreizer, by E. Morpurgo .............................................................................................. 131Time on Show at Westminster Abbey ....................................................................................................................... 133

Vol.5/5The Clock of St. George’s Church, Esher, by E. J. Tyler ........................................................................................ 154Sigismund Rentizsch, by T.P. Camera Cuss ............................................................................................................ 164The Lunar Society Exhibition at Birmingham, by R.J. Law ................................................................................. 169“The Grotto” by Jaquet Droz, by Diane Perrot ........................................................................................................ 170

Vol.5/6The 16th Century Clock at Sidling St. Nicholas, by A.H. Druery & C.F.C. Beeson ............................................ 194A Nobleman’s Accounts ............................................................................................................................................... 198The Arnolds and Bellings of Bodmin in Cornwall, by H. Miles Brown ................................................................ 200A Clock by Joseph Knibb ............................................................................................................................................ 203The Central Count Wheel, by C.F.C. Beeson ........................................................................................................... 204A Coach Clock by Joseph Kerber ............................................................................................................................... 206

Vol.5/7John Joseph Merlin a forgotten artist, by Charles Allix ........................................................................................ 228Bells and Bell Founding, by Douglas Hughes .......................................................................................................... 233Mechanical Universe, the Astrarium or the Planetarium, by E. Morpurgo ........................................................ 241A rare Lepine Watch, by Cecil Clutton ..................................................................................................................... 242

Vol.5/8The AHS tour of Holland, Belgium & North Germany – Turret Clocks, by C.F.C. Beeson .............................. 266The Auction sale of Larcum Kendall’s workshop, 1790, by G. L’E. Turner ......................................................... 269William John Gazeley.................................................................................................................................................. 276A Chinese Musical Clock, by T.P.C. Cuss ................................................................................................................. 278Horology in Provincial & Rural Museums, by John C. Stevens ............................................................................ 280Dondi 1318-1389 and Leonardo 1452-1519, by H. Alan Lloyd .............................................................................. 282James Sweetman Eiffe, by George Foster ................................................................................................................ 284

Vol.5/9Clocks seen on the Continental Tour 1967, by F.A.B. Ward & E.E.J. Trundell ................................................. 308A Constant Force Clock with Grande-Sonnerie Striking, by W. Pinder .............................................................. 315An English Gothic Chamber Clock, by George Foster ............................................................................................ 318British Museum Recent Acquisitions ........................................................................................................................ 325

Vol.5/10Gillows Clock Cases, by Nicholas Goodison ............................................................................................................. 348John Harrison his Rivals and Imitators, by H. Quill .............................................................................................. 362Watches, the AHS Continental Tour, 1967, by R.H.A. Miles ................................................................................ 368Professor David S. Torrens ......................................................................................................................................... 371Watch by Parkinson and Frodsham, by L.E. Christmas ........................................................................................ 374

Vol.5/11Mudge's Lever Escapement, by George Daniels ...................................................................................................... 396The Fusee Renversee, by Guiseppe Brusa and Charles Allix ................................................................................ 408The Astronomical Clock of Su Sung .......................................................................................................................... 414Sandglass in Cloth of Gold, by C.F.C. Beeson .......................................................................................................... 417

Vol.5/12A Dutton Equation Clock, by J.H.F. Wadsworth..................................................................................................... 440The Clock at Nether Winchendon Church, by W.H. Jennings .............................................................................. 443Watch by French, by L.E. Christmas ........................................................................................................................ 447Longcase Clock by Justin Vulliamy, C. 1770, by L.S. Northcote .......................................................................... 448A Clock by Thomas Bulman, by S.M. Baker ............................................................................................................ 450An Epicyclic Set Hands Mechanism, by A.C.H. Crisford ....................................................................................... 452Oil for Chronometers, by Charles K. Aked ............................................................................................................... 454Time and the Hour, Anonymous ................................................................................................................................ 458Brief Chronological History of Seth Thomas............................................................................................................ 463

VOLUME 6 1968

Vol.6/1A Turkish Calendar Watch, by Prof. H. von Bertele ............................................................................................... 12Horological Books and Libraries, by Charles A. Aked ............................................................................................ 15A Cumberland Masterpiece, by S.M. Baker ............................................................................................................. 24Paul Philip Barraud, by Cedric Jagger ..................................................................................................................... 28John Moore and Sons, by T.P.C. Cuss....................................................................................................................... 32

Vol.6/2Captain Cook’s Pendulum Clocks, by Derek Howse ............................................................................................... 62An early Anchor Escapement in a turret clock, by C.F.C. Beeson & F.R. Maddison ......................................... 77Antique Clocks in Scandinavia, by Dr. Johan Knap ............................................................................................... 81The Leichtis of Winterthur, by Anthony J. Duley ................................................................................................... 83Horological Books & their care, by Charles K. Aked .............................................................................................. 91

Vol.6/3H. Alan Lloyd ................................................................................................................................................................ 126Some Important English Clocks made for Italy and one Unrecorded Tompion, by Dr D. Pavolini ................. 128An Historical Skeleton Clock, by Major Anthony Heathcote ................................................................................. 132Two Pierre Le Roys, by Guiseppe Brusa and Charles Allix ................................................................................... 135Captain Cook's Minor Clocks and Watches, by Derek Howse ............................................................................... 138The First Twelve Years of the Pendulum Clock, by Michael Hurst ..................................................................... 146

Vol.6/4Captain Cook’s Marine Timepieces Part I- The Kendall Watches, by Derek Howse ......................................... 190Some Horological extracts from Stukeley’s diaries, by John R. Milburn ............................................................. 206The exclusive Fromanteel, by Edward G. Aghib ..................................................................................................... 212The Joyces of Whitchurch, by Charles K. Aked ....................................................................................................... 216The British Museum - some recent Acquisitions ..................................................................................................... 224Sold by Auction ............................................................................................................................................................. 226The AHS tour of Denmark, 1969 ............................................................................................................................... 229

Vol.6/5The English Lantern Clock, by Ernest L. Edwardes .............................................................................................. 260Captain Cook's Marine Timepieces Part II -- The Arnold Chronometers, by Derek Howse ............................. 276The Saga of the Shelton Clocks, by Derek Howse and Beresford Hutchinson .................................................... 281Art and Horology - an Association of Interest, by Peter D. Guggenheim ............................................................ 299The Story of Greenwhich Time .................................................................................................................................. 302

Vol.6/The 1797 Act of Parliament by T.P.C. Cuss ............................................................................................................. 349The Astronomical Watch by George Margetts, by George Daniels ....................................................................... 350 A Newly Discovered Graham Timepiece by F.A.B. Ward ..................................................................................... 360William Derham and the Artificial Clockmaker. By Charles K. Aked ................................................................. 362

Vol.6/7Perpignan 1356 and the earliest clocks,by C.F.C.Beeson ...................................................................................... 408William Dereham and “The Artificial Clockmaker” Part 2 by C.Aked................................................................. 416The Preservation of Old Church Clocks by E J Tyler ............................................................................................. 428Julien Le Roy No. 4540 by Woolf Posner .................................................................................................................. 431A 16th Century Table Clock by Edward S Jones & Peter D Guggenheim ............................................................ 433T.P.Camerer Cuss – an appreciation ........................................................................................................................ 437The Splicing of Clock Ropes by B.P.C.Fowler .......................................................................................................... 440

Vol.6/8The Clockmakers of Leicestershire and Rutland, by J. A. Daniell ....................................................................... 486William Derham and the Artificial Clockmaker - Part 3, by C.K. Aked .............................................................. 495A rare watch by James Ferguson Cole, by Robert Barnett .................................................................................... 506Georgius Clayton de Marple, by Ernest L. Edwardes ............................................................................................ 511Watches in the Museum of Science and Industry in Oslo, by Dr. Johan Knap................................................... 515

VOLUME 7 1970

Vol.7/1The Tompion Clocks at Greenwich and the Dead-Beat Escapement. by Derek Howse ..................................... 18Horologium, by Christiaan Huygens, 1658. Latin text with translation. by Ernest. L. Edwardes .................. 35Murdays electrically driven balance-wheel clock, by Charles K. Aked ................................................................ 56Charles Dickens and horology. by Frederick R.S. Rogers ...................................................................................... 60

Vol.7/2The Tompion Clocks at Greenwhich and the Dead-Beat Escapement Part 2, by Derek Howse ...................... 114The Story of the Cinderella Clock, by Prof Dr H. von Bertele ............................................................................... 134John Arnold's Chronometer No 13, by David Hutchinson ..................................................................................... 138The Planetarium at Franeker, by J.W.A. Van Schie .............................................................................................. 141Julien and Pierre Le Roy, some further evidence, by Charles Allix and Guiseppe Brusa ................................ 149

Vol.7/3Some features of 16th, 17th and 18th century italian clocks. by C.D. Cherbel................................................... 198Henry Hindley of York - part 1. by R.J. Law ........................................................................................................... 205Japanese clocks are peculier. by Albert L. Oldmark .............................................................................................. 222The invention of the anchor escapement .................................................................................................................. 225Christopher Wren and the Wadham Clock. by A.J. Turner................................................................................... 229Taking a Risk. by Murray Macleod ........................................................................................................................... 231

Vol.7/4The Grasshopper Escapement. by Colonel H. Quill ................................................................................................ 288Pearson's "Jupiter" Clock. by R.J. Law ..................................................................................................................... 297New light on George Margetts. by A.J. Turner........................................................................................................ 304Schoof's Regulator. by Frank Monk........................................................................................................................... 317The "Dutch" extraction of the Fromanteel Family. by Dr. R. Plomp .................................................................... 320Leading-off work in Turret Clocks. by D.F. Nettell ................................................................................................ 328The De Baufre Genre. by George Foster ................................................................................................................... 337

Vol.7/5Electricity, Magnetism and Clocks, by Charles K. Aked ........................................................................................ 398The Grasshopper Escapement, its Geometry and its Properties, by Martin Burgess........................................ 416Whatever became of Banger?, by John H. Penfold .................................................................................................. 423Continental Tour 1971 Part I Clocks, by E.E.J. Trundell ...................................................................................... 425Continental Tour 1971 Part II Watches, by Albert L. Odmark ............................................................................. 429

Vol.7/6Thomas Lister, 1745-1814. by C.H. Rycroft ............................................................................................................. 498Arnold and Breguet, Inventors of the modern watch ............................................................................................. 510Renovating turret clocks. by W.H. Jennings ............................................................................................................ 515Reflections from a Lacquer Clock. by E. Lloyd Thomas ........................................................................................ 518An early anonymous Swiss self-winding watch. by Jean-Claude Sabrier and Andre Imbert ........................... 526Roentgenology of old clocks. by Dr. T. de Roo .......................................................................................................... 529Combating the scourge of thefts. by Kenneth Ulyett ............................................................................................. 533

Vol.7/7Julien and Piere le Roy. by Guiseppe Brusa and Charles Allix ............................................................................ 598Robert Molyneux's Astronomical Clocks and Chronometers by Christopher Wood ........................................... 607Grandfather Hunter. by Dr. Douglas J.B. Wilson ................................................................................................... 613The Boothroyd Collection ............................................................................................................................................ 624The great astronomical clock at Hampton Court Palace ........................................................................................ 626A watchmakers Token ................................................................................................................................................. 628

Vol.7/8Henry Hindley of York 1701-1771 Part II. by R.J. Law ......................................................................................... 682The Radellof Cross Beat Clock of 1660. by Wolfram Block .................................................................................... 700Earnshaw Chronometer No 550. by Christopher Wood ......................................................................................... 704In support of the painted dial. by P.A. Hewitt ......................................................................................................... 706Eli Terry and the patent shelf clock. by Kenneth D. Roberts ................................................................................ 709Technical and Radiological determination of a rare old Dutch Schippertje, by Dr T. de Roo and P. Vel ........ 713A Le Roy Regulator. by Col N.M.R. McCallum ........................................................................................................ 717Observations on the new scaping for clocks and watches ...................................................................................... 720Sketch for a Turret Clock by Lord Grimthorpe. by Cecil Clutton ......................................................................... 723

VOLUME 8 1972

Vol.8/1The Dutch Origin of the French Pendulum Clock, by Dr. R. Plomb ..................................................................... 24Hubert Sarton of Liège, by Edward G. Aghib .......................................................................................................... 42The Astronomical Clocks at the Observatory, Calton Hill, Edinburgh, by Christopher Wood ......................... 55The Earth driven Clock, by Dr. F.G. Alan Shenton ................................................................................................ 63The Introduction of the Dead-Beat Escapement: A new document, by A.J. Turner .......................................... 71The Seth Atwood Clock and Watch Collections, by Cecil Clutton......................................................................... 72A Going Barrel Skeleton Clock, by Charles K. Aked & Dr. F.G. Alan Shenton .................................................. 75Drielsma’s Railway Clock ........................................................................................................................................... 78

Vol.8/2The First Free Pendulum Clock, by Charles K. Aked............................................................................................. 136The Thirty Hour Longcase Clock, by T.O. Robinson ............................................................................................... 163A Thomas Tompion Turret Clock, by J.E. Locke ..................................................................................................... 172An Eighteenth Century Watchmaker and his Day-Book, by E.F. Bunt............................................................... 175Restoration of a rare old Dutch Wall Clock, by Dr. T. de Roo & P. Vel ................................................................ 183Instruments for Measuring Time .............................................................................................................................. 187The Clock at St. Peter’s, Wallingford, by D.F. Nettell ............................................................................................ 188Two Pocket Chronometers by John Roger Arnold, by Adolphe Chapiro .............................................................. 190

Vol.8/3Old Dutch Clocks, by E.L. Edwardes ........................................................................................................................ 254The first Electric Clock, by Charles C. Aked ............................................................................................................ 276Almost Twins, by D.J. Blackwell ............................................................................................................................... 290Some trade tokens of horological interest, by Simon Bendall ............................................................................... 292The Fleet street address of Graham and his successors, by John R. Millburn ................................................... 299Major errors in Timekeeping of pendulum clocks, by Dr.J.D. Weaver ................................................................. 302How the rate of a pendulum clock will change with altitude, by Myron Pleasure ............................................. 305

Vol.8/4The context of production, identification and dating of clocks by A. and J. Thwaites, by G.T.E. Buggins andA.J. Turner .................................................................................................................................................................... 372Italian Tour 1973, by Charles K. Aked ..................................................................................................................... 382The philosophy of Louis Berthoud, by Cecil Clutton .............................................................................................. 399A remarkable clock by John Ellicot, by David M.W. Evans and Noel C. Evans ................................................. 402A spring driven year clock, by C.H. Rycroft ............................................................................................................. 406A Wise tic-tac, by Edmund Grimsley ........................................................................................................................ 409Two interesting watches of the late 18th century, by Adolphe Shapiro ............................................................... 412

Vol.8/5Vertical or Doorframe Turret Clocks, by C.F.C. Beeson ......................................................................................... 484The Scott Electric Clock, by Geoffrey C. Crabtree .................................................................................................. 491A 12-hour Public Clock Dial of the 15th Century in Paris, by Dr F.A.B. Ward .................................................. 495Bewcastle Cross, by Charles K. Aked ....................................................................................................................... 497Was Henri Motel a Pupil of Breguet, by Adolphe Chapiro .................................................................................... 506The Clock in the Church of All Saints, Kingston upon Thames, by E.J. Tyler ................................................... 508Historical Problem solved with X-Rays, by Dr. T. de Root and P. Vel.................................................................. 521A Pocket Chronometer by John Ham of London, by Thomas L. De Fazio ........................................................... 525

Vol.8/6The Cumbrian Background of George Graham, by John B. Penfold .................................................................... 600A visit to West Tofts, by D.F. Nettell ........................................................................................................................ 614A Danish Maker of Clocks and Watches, by Johan Knapp .................................................................................... 617Time in Jewish Tradition, by Myron Pleasure ........................................................................................................ 619Thiout's Detached Watch Escapement, by Cecil Clutton ....................................................................................... 625A note on two Brocot Inventions, by Dr. F. A. B. Ward .......................................................................................... 626

Vol.8/7 ............................................................................................................................................................................On Cherubim and Seraphim, by C.F.C. Beeson ...................................................................................................... 716A special and curious type clock from the Zaan region, by Dr.T.de Roo & P.Vel ................................................ 724Longitude and the Marine Chronometer: Part 1, by Charles K. Aked ................................................................. 732Watch No 1 by Beaure, by Adolphe Chapiro ............................................................................................................ 745Outward signs of William Bowyer, by Edmund Grimsley ..................................................................................... 747Clocks of China, by James R.A. Aked ....................................................................................................................... 748Visit to a Clerkenwell clock factory ........................................................................................................................... 750A Letter on the Longitude, by John Briggs .............................................................................................................. 755

Vol.8/8Some early English table clocks, by William C. Bopp............................................................................................. 838Longitude and the Marine Chronometer, Part 2, by Charles K. Aked ................................................................. 854Horological Caelocanth, by Anthony Bird ................................................................................................................ 866Precision pendulum clocks-circular error and the suspension spring, by Kenneth James ............................... 868A Cautionary Tale, by W.S. Laycock ......................................................................................................................... 884Clock Jacks of Town and Country, by R.J. Nichols ................................................................................................. 887More about the elusive Fromanteel, by E.G. Aghib and J.H. Leopold ................................................................. 890

VOLUME 9 1974

Vol.9/1Dutch Influences in French Clockmaking, by Dr. R. Plomb .................................................................................. 28Extracts from a Parkinson and Frodsham Pamphlet, by Christopher Wood ...................................................... 46Alexander Bain, the Father of Electrical Horology ................................................................................................. 51Three Miniature Spring Clocks by Thomas Tompion, by Meyrick Neilson ......................................................... 64Camerini – Maker of Fine Clocks, by C.D. Belcher ................................................................................................. 69The Portugese Agent: J.H. de Magellan, by G. L’E. Turner .................................................................................. 74A pair of Wooden Posted Turret Clocks, by W.S. Laycock & D.F. Nettell ........................................................... 77

Vol.9/21975 The Society's Memorial to Alan Lloyd ............................................................................................................. 156Italian Night Clocks, by Giuseppe Brusa ................................................................................................................. 159George IIIrd's Directions for Mounting and Unmounting a Watch, C.B. Drover ............................................... 169Hindley De Wigan: An eight day Clock, by David Barker ..................................................................................... 172The Fromanteel Story, by Brian Loomes .................................................................................................................. 175Thomas Cole Clockmaker Part I by Donovan Dawe ............................................................................................... 186Thomas Cole Clockmaker, Part II by John B. Hawkins ......................................................................................... 189John Arnolds Second Marriage, by Vaudrey Mercer .............................................................................................. 195Roman Solar Accoustic Clock in Verona, by Paulo F. Forlati ................................................................................ 198A Franklin Clock by Porthouse of Penrith, by B. Lloyd Thomas .......................................................................... 202Robert Lowne and his Electric Clock System, by Rita K. Shenton ....................................................................... 209William Roy, Dunfermline, by Felix Hudson ........................................................................................................... 215

Vol.9/3The Astronomical Clock Towers of Chang Ssu-Hsun and his Successors A.D. 976 to 1126, by John H.Combridge ..................................................................................................................................................................... 288A Turret Clock at Claverly (Salop), by D.F. Nettell and A.L. James.................................................................... 302The Clocks of the Victoria and Albert Museum, by Dr. F.A.B. Ward ................................................................... 304Thomas Yates of Preston Watchmaker and Experimentalist, by R.F. Carrington ............................................ 317The Metfield Church Clock, by Leonard F. Miller .................................................................................................. 320Leonardo and the Chiaravalle Abbey Clock, by Antonio Simoni .......................................................................... 324Two Clocks by Thuret, by Geoffrey Wills ................................................................................................................. 330The Function of the Quick Train Marine Chronometer, by Christopher Wood .................................................. 331The Automatic Memorandum Clock, by Rita K Shenton ....................................................................................... 337

Vol.9/4A Turret clock by Joseph Knibb, an appeal .............................................................................................................. 408Henry Hindley-his age, his clocks and the Lancashire link, by J.R.M. Setchell ................................................. 409Robert Molyneux's astronomical clocks and chronometers, Christopher Wood ................................................. 412A proposal for a National Index of Clock and Watchmakers, by Ian F. Maxted ................................................. 426An early Electric Turret Clock, by Charles K. Aked ............................................................................................... 428Jean-Antoine Lepine, 1720-1814, an "unknown" maker, by Adolphe Chapiro ................................................... 443A puzzle in dialling, by W.S. Laycock ....................................................................................................................... 443

Vol.9/5Dell' Orologia Applicato all Elettromotore Perpetuo, by Charles K. Aked and Dr Paolo Rizzardi .................. 524A watch altered by Charles Edward Viner to a Pocket Chronometer, by Thomas L. De Fazio ........................ 540Dr C.F.C. Beeson .......................................................................................................................................................... 543Thos Ogden, de Halifax, an 8-day, revolving ball moon loncased clock, c1740, by David Barker .................... 545Louis Recordon, King George III, and Richard Simmons: an account of a royal presentation watch, by OliverFairclough ..................................................................................................................................................................... 551Lunar gear trains and phase indication, by P.D. Briggs ........................................................................................ 556The rarity of chronometers, by Johan Knap ............................................................................................................ 558A turret clock by Jullion of Brentford, by C.G. MacKay ......................................................................................... 559Samuel Yates of Liverpool, by David M.W. Evans .................................................................................................. 563An Old Dutch Poem ..................................................................................................................................................... 565

Vol.9/6How the chronometer went to sea, by W.E. May ..................................................................................................... 638John Flamsteed and the balance spring, by Derek Howse and Valerie Finch .................................................... 664A description and study of a Planetarium, by M. Rendon and P. Balmes ........................................................... 682Thomas Cole Exhibition .............................................................................................................................................. 690The AHS west country tour 1975, by John Arnold Bell.......................................................................................... 692

Vol.9/715th Century Clocks and Clock dials, by F.A.B. Ward ........................................................................................... 762John C. Stevens ............................................................................................................................................................ 768An Albert H. Potter constant force chronometer, by Chester W. Howard ........................................................... 770Liechti clocks in British museums, by Anthony J. Duley....................................................................................... 777Thomas Wright in the Poultry, London, No 2228, by Andrew Crisford ............................................................... 785Orbis Sensualium Pictus. by James R. Aked ........................................................................................................... 789A remarkable electric clock, by R.A. Bucknall ......................................................................................................... 794The earliest string-gnomon sundials, by F.A.B. Ward............................................................................................ 800

Vol.9/8What's wrong with Hardy's escapement?, by Christopher Wood .......................................................................... 882The Chamberlain File ................................................................................................................................................. 896The delivery of a clock by John Holmes, London to a Yorkshire country house, by David Barker .................. 906Leonardo, the Chiaravalle clock and epicyclic gearing; a reply to Antonio Simoni, by Bert S. Hall and IanBates .............................................................................................................................................................................. 910The twilight of Islamic astronomy, by Myron Pleasure .......................................................................................... 918Horology at Grosvenor House .................................................................................................................................... 922Constant force escapements, by Anthony G. Randall ............................................................................................. 932

VOLUME 10 1976

Vol.10/1Joseph Finney of Liverpool, by Oliver Fairclough ................................................................................................... 32Rye Church Clock, by E.J. Tyler ................................................................................................................................ 41Scottish painted dials, by Felix Hudson ................................................................................................................... 55The Ambassadors, by Charles K. Aked ..................................................................................................................... 70Iron marks on turret clocks, by Torsten Berg and D.F. Nettel.............................................................................. 78The Marquis of Worcester, by Rita Shenton ............................................................................................................ 82Big Ben, by M.S. Loveday ........................................................................................................................................... 85

Vol.10/2The Admiral’s clock, by Derek Howse ....................................................................................................................... 164Scottish painted dials, Part 2, by Felix Hudson ...................................................................................................... 173The Earliest Turret Clock?, by Hams von Bertele .................................................................................................. 189The Collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, by Cecil Clutton ................................................... 197“Electrifying time" exhibition, by Arthur Mitchell .................................................................................................. 206Important Sidereal month going longcase regulator by Thomas Tompion and Edward Banger, by MeyrickNeilson ........................................................................................................................................................................... 214The Shortt Synchronome No 31, by Thomas Terjeson............................................................................................ 217

Vol.10/3Joseph Finney of Liverpool (contd.), by Oliver Fairclough..................................................................................... 294James McCabe, by Paul E. Hackamack .................................................................................................................... 308Scottish painted dials Part 3, by Felix Hudson ....................................................................................................... 317James Ferguson’s Tidal Clock 1764-1770, by John Milburn ................................................................................. 331The Structural and aesthetic perfection of gothic clock frames, by H.G. Hammond ......................................... 336A Clerkenwell tour of fifty years ago, by T.E. White .............................................................................................. 340

Vol.10/4Beeching/Ashburnam, A Georgian Dial with Edwardian Scenic Engravings, by John H. Combridge ............ 428Notes on the Bliss and Creighton Chronometer Patent, by Thomas L. De Fazio ............................................... 439Some Scottish Longcases by Felix Hudson............................................................................................................... 447An Electric Turret Clock by Shepherd, by A. Mitchell and D.F. Nettell .............................................................. 460Noon Mark Sundial in Malta, by Louise Wilmot ..................................................................................................... 464Watchmaking in Coventry, by Peter Searby ............................................................................................................ 465

Vol.10/5Could it have been Wren? by Larry L. Fabian ......................................................................................................... 550Two historic clocks in Mexico, by G. Spencer ........................................................................................................... 571A fuss around a fusee, by Hedley G. Martin ............................................................................................................ 573Documents illustrative of the History of English Horology 1- Two letters addressed to Thomas Mudge, by A.J.Turner and A.C.H. Crisford ........................................................................................................................................ 580Regulator by Samuel Thorpe, Abberley, by K.J.C. MacMaster ............................................................................. 583Captain Inglefields Watch, by Terence Cuss ........................................................................................................... 586The timekeepers of Counsellor Husgen, by H.J. Antweiler ................................................................................... 589

Vol.10/6Edward John Dent, by Vaudrey Mercer ................................................................................................................... 595An "improved" clock, by W. Opperman ..................................................................................................................... 603The turret clock of Wherstead Hall Suffolk, by Leonard F. Miller ....................................................................... 684Escapement errors, by J.D. Weaver .......................................................................................................................... 688Pierre Frederick Ingold and the British watch and clock making company, by R.F. and R.W. Carrington ... 698Some observations on the timekeepers of Thomas Mudge, by Beresford Hutchinson ....................................... 715Conversion to anchor escapement ............................................................................................................................. 720Catalan clocks and clockmakers to the end of Middle Ages by Jeanne Vielliard, translated by Charles K. Aked ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 722A tuneable set of chimes, by J.R. Nichols ................................................................................................................. 728

Vol.10/7The clocks of Waddesdon Manor, by F.A.B. Ward ................................................................................................... 804Turret clocks in Malta, by R.H. de Burgh Wilmot................................................................................................... 816Clock dials on a 15th Century Country Estate, and other Burgundian clocks, by S.E. Holbrook.................... 819Clocks at the Country House Museums of Temple Newsum House and Lotherton Hall near Leeds, by DavidBarker ............................................................................................................................................................................ 828The technique of Photographing Watches, by Anthony Randall ........................................................................... 835Ebenezer Henderson and the Liverpool Observatory, by Herman H. Knie......................................................... 843

VOLUME 11 1978

Vol.11/1Theft of Antique Clocks, by T. Lee............................................................................................................................. 28The Thirty Hour key wound Longcase clock, by J. Hartley ................................................................................... 30An early mystery clock, by J.D. Metcalfe ................................................................................................................. 36The Clockmakers of Battle, by E.J. Tyler ................................................................................................................. 39Constant force escapements and an escapement remontoire, by A.G. Randall .................................................. 46The watches of the Victoria and Albert Museum, by Dr F.A.B. Ward ................................................................. 61Two Plane Turret Clock Escapements by William Leeson, by D.F. Nettell and B.E. Sparks ........................... 79

Vol.11/2A Short History of the Antiquarian Horological Society, by C. B. Drover ........................................................... 144Early Pendulum Clocks, by R.A. Lee ........................................................................................................................ 146Antiquarian Horology .................................................................................................................................................. 161Turret Clocks, by D.F. Nettell .................................................................................................................................... 162Watches Prior to 1750, by F. Wadsworth ................................................................................................................. 180British Clocks, 1700-1900, by A.A. Treherne ........................................................................................................... 184The Pocket Watch by C. Clutton ................................................................................................................................ 206

Vol.11/3An aid to the depth of field determination in horological photography, by T.T. Walters .................................. 280The adoption of standard time, by Alun C. Davies ................................................................................................. 284The Christian Kintzing turret clock at Dierdorf, by E.J. Tyler ............................................................................. 290Sand-glasses of the Historiches Urhen Museum, Wuppertal, by J.R.A. Aked .................................................... 293

Vol.11/4The St Albans Clock, by E. Watson ........................................................................................................................... 372The Clandon "Cockleshell", by T.O. Robinson ......................................................................................................... 385Clock Illustrations in the Sir Thomas Moore Exhibition, by Dr. F.A.B. Ward ................................................... 386The Thirty Hour key wound longcase clock ............................................................................................................. 389George Graham Regulator, by A.B. Partridge ......................................................................................................... 390Two Turret Clocks with Spring Remontoires, by D.F. Nettell .............................................................................. 394Craftsmen in Leeds – 1838, by D. Barker ................................................................................................................ 407

Vol.11/5Why Barrow? by Cecil Clutton ................................................................................................................................... 480An early pocket sundial illustrated in art, by Dr. F.A.B. Ward ............................................................................ 484The 13th Century "King Hezekiah" Water Clock, by Andre Wegener Sleeswyk ................................................ 488The 19th Century Watchmans Clock, by Dr. A.A.L. Thomas ................................................................................ 496The Clocks in Westminster Abbey, by L.E. Tanner C.V.O..................................................................................... 508

Vol.11/6The St Albans Clock, by E. Watson ........................................................................................................................... 576Andrew Dickie and others, Clock and Watchmakers, by M. Norgate .................................................................. 586Accuracy in repeating work, by W.W. Wilkes .......................................................................................................... 603Clocktower Millenary reflections, by J.H. Combridge ............................................................................................ 604William Hardy's Regulator, by A.J. Turner ............................................................................................................. 615The fly in the Grimthorpe Gravity Escapement, by H. Wallman ......................................................................... 628

VOLUME 12 1980

Vol.12/1George Daniels ............................................................................................................................................................. 28The Independent jumping seconds mechanism of Jean Pouzait, by Joachim Mauss ........................................ 30Louis XIV "Oignons" III Unusual examples, by Adolphe Chapiro (translated by C. Allix) ............................... 38A new look at the dating of early English clocks, by C.N. Ponsford and J.G.M. Scott ....................................... 52Pocket Chronometer movement No 1847 by Breguet, by Kurt J. Egli (translated by E.J. Tyler) .................... 70George Booth, Aberdeen, c 1800, by Felix Hudson.................................................................................................. 78

Vol.12/2The Foliot and the Natural Day, by H.G. Hammond .............................................................................................. 154Edward Aldridge of Deal, by M.J.D. Ward ............................................................................................................... 158The 13th Century "King Hezekiah" water clock, by C.B. Drover .......................................................................... 160Chronometer escapements. by R. Mathews ............................................................................................................. 170A 15th century Italian "clockmakers workshop". by Dr. F.A.B. Ward ................................................................. 172The St Albans clock, Addendum ................................................................................................................................ 174Percy Webster, by Percy G. Dawson.......................................................................................................................... 175The fly in the Grimthorpe escapement, by D.F. Nettell and G.H. Williams ....................................................... 178Further thought on Grimthorpe’s fly, by A.W. Heldman ....................................................................................... 183Huygens, The Secret in the Coster Fromanteel "Contract", the thirty hour clock, by R.D. Dobson ................ 193A precision clock by Josiah Emery, by J.L. Evans .................................................................................................. 197Scientific notes, a musical time beater, by A.C. Brewer ......................................................................................... 201

Vol.12/3Disputes between Masters and their Workmen, by G.B. Hodgetts ...................................................................... 268The use of the Ultra Violet Lamp in Painted Dial Restoration, by M. F. TennantVisit to a Clerkenwell Clock Factory ......................................................................................................................... 274The Froxfield Clock, by P.A. Meecham and D.F. Nettell........................................................................................ 281The Rise and Decline of Chronometer Manufacturing, by A.C. Davies ............................................................... 285The 13th Century "King Hezekiah" Water Clock: Addenda, by J. H. Combridge .............................................. 300A New Look at the Dating of Early English Clocks, by D.F. Nettell .................................................................... 301Sundials at Hever Castle, by Dr. F.A.B. Ward and Dr. D. Vaughan .................................................................... 307Eclipses and the St Albans Clock, by J.R. Millburn................................................................................................ 313

Vol.12/4Longcase engraved dials. Mid-Scotland, by F. Hudson .......................................................................................... 392Martin Matthews, watch case maker, by J. Finch .................................................................................................. 410George Newton, blacksmith turned clockmaker of Seend, Wiltshire, C. Thomas .............................................. 420Sully, Verlinden and others, by C. Allix ................................................................................................................... 428Clocks and bells, by D.F. Nettell ................................................................................................................................ 435Burgi and the pendulum controlled escapement, by M.J.L. Kesteven ................................................................. 441Huygens, Coster and Fromanteel, some secrets remain, by E.H. Glasius ........................................................... 442Hands, by F. Hudson ................................................................................................................................................... 443

Vol.12/5Watch Stands, by Eric Street ..................................................................................................................................... 504The Penningtons and their balances, by Vaudrey Mercer ..................................................................................... 514A Gravity Clock by Cope and Molyneux, by T.A. Camerer Cuss .......................................................................... 524Film: British Clocks ..................................................................................................................................................... 525Wells and Salisbury, by C.N. Ponsford and J.G.M. Scott ....................................................................................... 528Chinese Steelyard Clepsydras, by John H. Combridge .......................................................................................... 530Some dating features for turret clocks, by J.G.M. Scott ......................................................................................... 536George Newton, by C. Thomas ................................................................................................................................... 538Hands............................................................................................................................................................................. 540Further fussing about the fusee, by J.D. Weaver .................................................................................................... 542

Vol.12/6Verge watch movements in wood cases, by Percy G. Dawson ............................................................................... 604A Tompion watch dug up on the South Downs in 1977, by W.A. van Aken ........................................................ 609The suspended foliot and new light on early pendulum clocks, by Ernest L. Edwardes ................................... 614Mudge milestones, Watch Dates, by Charles Allix ................................................................................................. 627A.H.S. tour Holland 1980, by C.K. Aked................................................................................................................... 635

VOLUME 13 1981

Vol.13/1Equation clocks, by J. Wenzel .................................................................................................................................... 24The Penningtons and their Balances ........................................................................................................................ 44A Select Clock, by J.S. Reid ........................................................................................................................................ 45The Matthew the Miller clock at the parish church of St Mary Steps, Exeter, by C.N. Ponsford .................... 52Some notes on La Vallee and L.B. Audemars, by T.A. Camerer Cuss ................................................................. 67Watch movement making in Prescot, by R. Kemp .................................................................................................. 77John Poole's balances, by Vaudrey Mercer............................................................................................................... 82

Vol.13/2The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers ............................................................................................................... 140Mudge milestones, by A.F. Cliborne .......................................................................................................................... 144Josiah Emery and John Leroux, by Cecil Clutton ................................................................................................... 146John Arnold, by Cecil Clutton .................................................................................................................................... 148Thomas Mudge the complete Horologist, by George Daniels ................................................................................ 150Thomas Earnshaw, by Vaudrey Mercer ................................................................................................................... 175Watch by Thomas Mudge No 574 .............................................................................................................................. 178William Oughtred, by C.K. Aked ............................................................................................................................... 192

Vol.13/3The evolution of European Domestic Clocks, by Dr. F.A.B. Ward ........................................................................ 248Export of clocks from Leith, by Gibb and Hudson ................................................................................................... 268The development of the Pendulum Clock, by R.D. Dobson .................................................................................... 270Two mid Scotland Longcase Dials, by G. Cumming ............................................................................................... 282A most interesting clock, by K.H. Whay ................................................................................................................... 290French clockmakers at Nonsuch, by C.N. Ponsford ................................................................................................ 294

Vol.13/4Defining a Musical Clock, by A.W.J.G. Ord-Hume ................................................................................................. 340Lichfield Clock, by J. Orange ..................................................................................................................................... 359A miniature Lantern Alarm Timepiece, by C. Thomas .......................................................................................... 366Horology and the Adams Family, by J.R. Millburn ................................................................................................ 368Early Pendulum Clocks: Addendum, by E.L. Edwardes ........................................................................................ 381The Hazards of an early Luminous Watch, by E. Street ........................................................................................ 383A Viennese 1/4 striking Mechanism, by J. Hannah ................................................................................................ 386Pearson's Water Clock, by A.J. Turner ..................................................................................................................... 388

Vol.13/5Repatriated English clocks, by Percy G. Dawson .................................................................................................... 434James Ferguson's star plate, by Dr. J.S. Reid ......................................................................................................... 438Charles Babbage and the invention of workmen's time recorders, by Dr.A.G. Bromley ................................... 442C15th Chamber clock, by B.R. Hammond ................................................................................................................ 450Mudge's fourth timekeeper, by C.N. Ponsford ......................................................................................................... 453Pitt's clock and Watch tax, by A. Burchall ............................................................................................................... 454Tompion - Quare collaboration, by G. Boney ........................................................................................................... 462C16th Clock illustration, by Dr. F.A.B. Ward .......................................................................................................... 467Unusual differentials in renaissance clockwork, by H.B.J. Karlsen and Graham White ................................. 469

Vol.13/6The first white dial longcase clocks and their cases, 1772-1773, by S.E. Stuart ................................................ 534Three late Georgian painted dials, by F. Hudson.................................................................................................... 551The Massey watch escapement, by Dr. R. Kemp ..................................................................................................... 558Louis Berthoud, by C. Clutton ................................................................................................................................... 565French turret clocks, by C.G. McKay ........................................................................................................................ 568Musee National de la Renaissance d'Ecouen, by C.K. Aked .................................................................................. 572George Adams Copernicum Sphere, by J.R. Millburn ............................................................................................ 582Differentials in Renaissance Clockwork, by H.B. Karlsen ..................................................................................... 582Early Pendulum Clocks, by H.E. Glasius ................................................................................................................. 564Horological collection at Ecouen, by A. Chapiro ...................................................................................................... 583

VOLUME 14 1982

Vol.14/1Brass Spandrels, by F. Hudson .................................................................................................................................. 26The Hartnup Balance, by R.W. Smith ...................................................................................................................... 39Clocks seen on the AHS tour of France 1982, by P. Tuck ...................................................................................... 46Gould or Knibb?, by D. Nettell & K. Stocker ........................................................................................................... 59A 16th Century Astronomical Table Clock, by H. Karlsen ...................................................................................... 63A Split Second Chronometer by C. Frodsham, by J. Mauss .................................................................................. 76

Vol.14/2James Wilson, Clockmaker of Belfast, by W.A. Seaby............................................................................................ 133The Pulse Watch, by J.H.F. Wadsworth ................................................................................................................... 156Lord Grimthorpe and his Experimental Regulator, by J. Martin and D. Roberts.............................................. 157Musical Clocks, by A.W. Ord-Hume .......................................................................................................................... 171Electrical Precision, by C.K. Aked ............................................................................................................................. 172

Vol.14/3The Fromanteels and the pendulum clock, by E.L. Edwardes & R.D. Dobson ................................................... 250Benjamin Gray and the Vulliamys, by Vaudrey Mercer ........................................................................................ 266The London background of George Graham, by J.B. Penfold ................................................................................ 272Pendleton et al, by F.A. Mercer.................................................................................................................................. 281Sandglasses, sundials and watches, AHS tour 1982, by C.K. Aked ..................................................................... 283Three chronometers made in London, by F. Hudson .............................................................................................. 288More about Watchstands, by E. Street ..................................................................................................................... 298Ticehurst church clock. by E.J. Tyler ........................................................................................................................ 304

Vol.14/4William Dutton London, by F. Hudson ..................................................................................................................... 356Lepine, Breguet and the origins of the lever escapement in France, by Adolphe Chapiro ................................ 369Worshipful Company of Clockmakers ....................................................................................................................... 404Three chronometers made in London, Addenda ...................................................................................................... 405The Jumps and their sectors, by V. Mercer .............................................................................................................. 406

Vol.14/51984 Some historic Earnshaw chronometers, the work of his pupils and one of his rivals, by C. Wood ......... 468Epicycloidal teeth; Addendum, by V. Mercer ........................................................................................................... 485An interior Church clock dial in Haarlem, by Dr. F. Ward .................................................................................... 486Clock dating, by M. Norgate ....................................................................................................................................... 489The history of a John Roger Arnold pocket chronometer No 2183, by J. Geisow ............................................... 498Origins of the lever escapement in France; Addendum, by C. Clutton ................................................................ 501The other "Dutch" Englishman, by J. Bailey ........................................................................................................... 503

Vol.14/6David Smyth Torrens, by A.C. Davies ...................................................................................................................... 564The numbering of Tompion’s watches, series and system, by J. Evans ............................................................... 585A Watchmaker unmasked, by L.J. Pigott ................................................................................................................. 598Fergusons astronomical clock, astrolabes and stereographic projections, by M Kesteven ................................ 602An early pocket chronometer by Thomas Earnshaw, signed Robert Tomlin, by A.G. Randall ........................ 609Lepine, Breguet and the lever escapement, by A. Chapiro .................................................................................... 616

VOLUME 15 1984

Vol.15/1Andrew Dunlop, C.C. 1701-32, by A.M.T. Maxwell-Irving..................................................................................... 36The iron and steel available to the horological masters of the past, by L. Paton ............................................... 47Thomas Mudge, London Roman striking bracket clock circa 1770, by F. Hudson ............................................. 53

Vol.15/2The Lord Harris; Obituary ......................................................................................................................................... 124A neat Clockcase Ornamented, by S.E. Stuart ........................................................................................................ 125Thomas William Yates of Preston, by R. Carrington and R. Kemp ...................................................................... 144A rare complicated watch by Piguet, by R. Good ..................................................................................................... 147An apprentice in 1910 ................................................................................................................................................. 160An interior church clock dial in Haarlem, by L. van Lambalgen .......................................................................... 161Londini fake it? by M.J. Farey ................................................................................................................................... 165

Vol.15/3Clocks in the paintings of Titian, by Dr. F Ward .................................................................................................... 224The Noctuary or Watchmans Clock, by A. Burchall ............................................................................................... 231Three Edinburgh makers, by F. Hudson .................................................................................................................. 253Galileo Galilei and Christiaan Huygens, by R. Dobson .......................................................................................... 261

Vol.15/4A conjectural reconstruction of the Perpignan clock of 1356, by H.E Rose ......................................................... 3301984 AHS Tour of Vienna, by C.K. Aked .................................................................................................................. 355The Noctuary, addendum, by A. Burchall ................................................................................................................ 362A Mechanical clock for a Medieval Quarry, by G.C. del Vecchio ........................................................................... 368A Birdcage clock at Norrington Court, by M. Snell and W. Backinsell ................................................................ 370Galileo Galilei and Christiaan Huygens, addendum, by M.F. Ball ...................................................................... 373The Rack Lever watch, Today's survivals, by R. Kemp .......................................................................................... 375

Vol.15/5John Smith, Pittenweem, by Felix Hudson .............................................................................................................. 440Measurements of the quality factor of the pendulums of four clocks by John Harrison, by D.A. Bateman andK. James ........................................................................................................................................................................ 479The Noctuary, addendum ........................................................................................................................................... 490The Perpignion clock continued, by H.E. Rose ........................................................................................................ 491Galileo - Huygens, addendum .................................................................................................................................... 509Isaiah Lukens, by B.R. Forman ................................................................................................................................. 411

Vol.15/6A watch from HMS Pandora, by J. Carpenter, L. Pigott and H. Whitewell ........................................................ 560Kater's Escapement, by P. Woodward....................................................................................................................... 573William Monk turret clocks, by M. Snell .................................................................................................................. 583Duo in Uno, by R. Simpson ......................................................................................................................................... 602An early 18th century watchmakers notebook, by A. Smith ................................................................................. 605

VOLUME 16 1986

Vol.16/1Who was I.W., by M.J. Lee ......................................................................................................................................... 28Effects of the gravitational attractions of the sun and moon on the period of a pendulum, by P.H. Boucheron ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 53The Rack Lever watch, addendum, by G.C. Crabtree............................................................................................. 71Captain Kater's escapement, addenda, by K. James .............................................................................................. 72

Vol.16/2Robert Foulkes ............................................................................................................................................................. 120Henry Hindley of York, by J.H. Ellis ........................................................................................................................ 121The limitimg stability of pendulums, by M.K. Hobden .......................................................................................... 132A Breguet puzzle by N.A. Dean.................................................................................................................................. 135An early Renaissance stone polyhedral sundial, by G.S. White ............................................................................ 139Regulating working hours and timekeeping in the middle ages, by G.D. van Rossum ..................................... 145Ferdinand Berthoud, by A.G. Randall ...................................................................................................................... 149Early jewel holes, by G. Ahrens, translated by E.J. Tyler ..................................................................................... 173

Vol.16/3A sun moon and tidal dial, by Rene R.J. Rohr, translated by A.R. Somerville ................................................... 227The sundials of John Bonar, schoolmaster of Ayr, by A.R. Somerville ................................................................ 233The Deacon Family of Leicestershire clockmakers - Part I, by P.A. Hewitt........................................................ 255Three clocks in the Ridgeway parish, by D.F. Nettell ............................................................................................ 263Netherlands Tour 1986 ............................................................................................................................................... 267Basque Horology, by Charles K. Aked ...................................................................................................................... 275

Vol.16/4The Deacon family of Leicestershire clockmakers – Part II, by P.A. Hewitt ...................................................... 339Pue's Occurences, by David Penney .......................................................................................................................... 368Horology under the hammer (Auction review 1985-1986), by R.J. Law .............................................................. 372A pre-balance spring horizontal table clock by Robert Grinkin of London, by Richard Good ........................... 381A watch in the tradition of Pierre Le Roy's "La petite ronde", by Cecil Clutton ................................................. 386The "Doctor's" stop watch, by A.M. Baldwin ............................................................................................................ 389A true perspective of Perpignan 1356. by Charles K. Aked ................................................................................... 392300 years of Fine English clock and watchmaking, by Charles K. Aked ............................................................. 406

Vol.16/5The Pulsynetic System and it's place in the history of electric clocks, by D.J. Bird........................................... 467Longcase clocks of a distinctive design, by Percy G. Dawson ................................................................................ 479The name engraved upon a watch plate, by David Penney ................................................................................... 491Watches seen on the 1986 tour of Holland, by Paul Tuck ...................................................................................... 494How to prepare an article, by David Penney ........................................................................................................... 498A verge watch with alarm and passing strike by Issac Simmes, London, by David Thompson ....................... 499John Roger Arnold No 573, by "Colbert"................................................................................................................... 507Golay Fils and Stahl, sunrise and sunset watch No 28432. Addendum, by David Aubert, translated by A.G.Randall .......................................................................................................................................................................... 510

Vol.16/6Joseph and Thomas Windmills, by J.A. Neale ......................................................................................................... 573William Howells watchmaker, Part 1, by David Penney and Valerie Finch ....................................................... 585Davis Mell, musician and clockmaker and an analysis of the clockmaking trade in 17th century London, byMaria and Pedro Fernandez ....................................................................................................................................... 602The Deacon family of Leicestershire clockmakers, Addendum, by P.A. Hewitt ................................................. 618The Pulsynetic System and it's place in the history of electric clocks, Part 2, by D.J. Bird.............................. 621Stem regulating perfect keyless, by Leonard Paller ............................................................................................... 630

VOLUME 17 1987

Vol.17/1Clocks in the Greenwich list of observatories, by Derek Howse ........................................................................... 30Joseph Ellicott; Master Clockmaker, by Richard Mones & Richard W.S. Jones ................................................ 39The Pulsynetic System and it's place in the history of electric clocks, final part, by D.J. Bird ........................ 56The 'Doctors' watch, An addendum, by Johan Wenzel ........................................................................................... 67Who was Harry Callowe?, by Guy Boney ................................................................................................................. 69A bill of John Ellicott's for turret clock repairs, by John R. Millburn .................................................................. 77

Vol.17/2William Bond Astronomical Regulator No 395, by R.J. Griffiths ......................................................................... 137A Compteur Militaire pocket watch, by Joachim Mauss ........................................................................................ 145The Discontented Pendulum, an ephemeral tale, by David Penney ..................................................................... 164The clock driven celestial globes of QiMei-Lu and others, by John H. Combridge ............................................. 165The later Fromanteels, by Percy Dawson ................................................................................................................. 175A Chronometer/Chronograph, by Leonard Paller ................................................................................................... 179The Shelton clock at Kodaikanal, by R.K. Kochhar ................................................................................................ 181

Vol.17/3The French Republican calendar, by Geoffrey Wilson ............................................................................................ 249A Joseph Knibb longcase clock with early anchor escapement, by Christopher Greenwood ............................ 259Horology under the hammer. (Auction review 1986-87), by R.J. Law.................................................................. 274Watch making on the Naugatuck .............................................................................................................................. 281Treatise on marine timekeepers, by Charles K. Aked ............................................................................................ 282AHS Welsh tour 1987, some outstanding items, by Paul Tuck ............................................................................. 291

Vol.17/4Wrist Watches 1910-1920, (An introductory study), by Dennis Harris ............................................................... 357Thomas Earnshaw's numbering sequence, by A.G. Randall ................................................................................. 367A lathe for watchmaking (The development of the Swiss automatic lathe), by D.H. Bacon ............................. 382Winding Indicators. by A.M. Baldwin ....................................................................................................................... 395

Vol.17/5The cuckoo clocks of Johann Baptiste Beha, by Dr Wilhelm Scneider ................................................................. 455Julien Le Roy's improved horizontal sundial. by A.J. Turner ............................................................................... 463The business records of Turner and Birch, 1834-1920. by Alun C. Davies .......................................................... 478The English Remontoire Escapement Regulator, by Christopher Wood ............................................................. 483An early lever escapement. by Charles K. Aked ...................................................................................................... 491

Vol.17/6More tilting at Windmills, by J.A. Neale .................................................................................................................. 563Three letters from George Graham, by Charles K. Aked ....................................................................................... 597An unusual chronometer timepiece attributed to John Roger Arnold, by Geoffrey C. Crabtree ...................... 606Barraud and Lund 2/847 (A detective story), by Leonard Paller .......................................................................... 608Charles Goode - C.W. (An enigma), by Paul Tuck ................................................................................................... 610

VOLUME 18 1989

Vol.18/1The clocks of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, by Dr. D.R. Parr .............................................. 35A documented Tompion watch, by Tom Robinson ................................................................................................... 67Hampton Court Palace Clock, by Helge B.J. Karlsen ............................................................................................. 72Three letters from George Graham (A postscript), by Charles K. Aked .............................................................. 78An unusual Grande Sonnerie movement, by John Winterton ............................................................................... 79

Vol.18/2The technology of John Harrison's portable time keepers, part 1, by A.G. Randall........................................... 145The universal sundials of Jacques Orzanam, by Rene R.J. Rohr (translated by A.R. Somerville) .................. 171A presentation watch, by Geoffrey C. Crabtree ....................................................................................................... 178Fine examples of Antiquarian Horology seen during the Scottish Tour, 1988. by Paul Tuck .......................... 181

Vol.18/3The technology of John Harrison's portable timekeepers, final part, by A.G. Randall ...................................... 261Battle Church Clock, by E.J. Tyler ............................................................................................................................ 287An Unusual communication, by Leonard Paller...................................................................................................... 296Joseph Preston and Sons, by Charles K. Aked ........................................................................................................ 298English Grande Sonnerie clocks; an inventory, by John Winterton ..................................................................... 307

Vol.18/4A medieval Catalan clepsydra and carillon, by Eduard Farre-Olive .................................................................... 371The Shanghai time ball of 1884, by John H. Combridge ........................................................................................ 381Old and new Technology in Watchmaking in Coventry, 1850-1920, by Alun C. Davies ................................... 397The Graham clock of Uppsala University, by G. Pipping....................................................................................... 411Petition of Edinburgh Watchmakers to Parliament, 1797-1798 (a guid gangin' plea), by Donald Whyte ...... 417Royal Geographical Society No 5., by Don Levison ................................................................................................. 423

Vol.18/5Early mechanical horology in Italy, by Giuseppe Brusa ........................................................................................ 485A Bentley and Beck dead beat verge watch, by Major General D.A.K. Redman ................................................ 526A Deacon Musical Clock, by B. Corbishley ............................................................................................................... 529

Vol.18/6William Hardy and his Spring Pallet Regulators, by Charles Allix ..................................................................... 607Observations of the Antikythera Mechanism, by Allan G. Bromley..................................................................... 641The earliest photograph of a wristwatch? by David J. Boullin.............................................................................. 653

VOLUME 19 1990

Vol.19/1The Deal time ball, by Charles F.C. Beresford and John H. Combridge ............................................................. 33The British Watch and Clockmaking Company (some further notes), by R.F. Carrington............................... 44Richard Hornby, watch and chronometer manufacturer of Liverpool, by A.C. Purcell ..................................... 57Chronological equilibrium (a mysterious clock made by J & A. McNab of Perth No 102), by Felix Hudson .. 68More on Robert Gardner, by Charles Aked .............................................................................................................. 71

Vol.19/2Seasonal-Hour Sundials, by Allan A. Mills .............................................................................................................. 147An early quarter chiming thirty hour clock, by Tom Robinson ............................................................................. 188Robert Gardner, an addendum, by Charles K. Aked .............................................................................................. 190Design analysis of a William Hardy regulator spring detent, by Leslie Paton ................................................... 193Samuel Carpenter watch escapement, by Henry B. Fried ..................................................................................... 202

Vol.19/3Hamilton Marine Chronometer No 503, by A.G. Randall ...................................................................................... 261The oldest Zaanse Klok, by H.E. Glasins ................................................................................................................. 271The 13th century King Hezekiah water clock; further addenda, by John H Combridge ................................... 290A short epistle to the longitudinarians, by Charles K. Aked ................................................................................. 292English Grande Sonnerie clocks; A classification, by John Winterton ................................................................. 301Inland longcase clocks with a moon and tidal dial; An investigation, by P.A. Hewitt ....................................... 309

Vol.19/4Clocks for the Emperor, by Allen H. Weaving ......................................................................................................... 367Some early 19th century workmen, by Francis Wadsworth .................................................................................. 401The painted dial in Ireland, by M.F. Tennant ......................................................................................................... 413A few 18th century Liverpool/Prescot area toolmakers, by Ted Crom ................................................................. 419

Vol.19/5History of the horological collections in Dresd, by J. Schardin ............................................................................. 493A half-hour repeating carriage clock, by M.P. Fernandez and P.C. Fernandez ................................................. 522A pre-1750 minute repeating watch, by Arndt Simon ........................................................................................... 525An epicyclic equation gear dated 1711, by G. White ............................................................................................... 531A musical longcase clock by John Bicknill, Cirencester, by George Hornby ....................................................... 539

Vol.19/6E.T. Cottingham, F.R.A.S., by Dennis Jones ........................................................................................................... 593The clocks of St Andrew's Church, Hornchurch, Essex, by E.J. Tyler ................................................................. 617Vulliamy clock numbering; A dated series, by Roger Smith .................................................................................. 620Bradeley's primary and secondary patent electric clocks ....................................................................................... 626Researching turret clock history, by Alun C. Davies .............................................................................................. 628

VOLUME 20 1992

Vol.20/1Clock and watchmaking in Leicestershire and Rutland 1680-1900, by P.A. Hewitt ......................................... 31A visit to Vulliamy's premises on 7th September,1786, by Beresford Hutchinson ............................................ 66A visit to the clock factory of Messrs John Moore and Sons, Clerkenwell-Close, London, by Dennis Harris . 69The accuracy of the foliot, by W. Houtkooper (translated by E.J. Tyler) ............................................................. 74

Vol.20/2Issac Newton's Sundials, by Allan A. mills .............................................................................................................. 126Shedding light on the longcase white dial, by John Ballinger .............................................................................. 154Harry Callowe; A sequel, by Guy Boney, Q.C. ......................................................................................................... 156Perrault's hydraulic clock, by Charles K. Aked ....................................................................................................... 161

Vol.20/3Berthoud in England, Harrison in France: The Transmission of Horological Knowledge in 18th CenturyEurope, by A.J. Turner ................................................................................................................................................ 219American Section London Tour, Part 1, by Paul Middents ................................................................................... 252Starting up a Watchmaking Business: James Richie of Edinburgh, 1809-1812, by Alun C. Davies ............... 260

Vol.20/4What's wrong with Hardy's Escapement? : A re-appraisal, Christopher Wood .................................................. 315The fascination of a free pendulum ........................................................................................................................... 338The case of William Jacques (William Jacques, CC, watch case maker), by A.J. Neale.................................... 340American section London tour, 1991 (concluded) .................................................................................................... 356

Vol.20/5Paul Garnier Revisited, by Charles Allix ................................................................................................................. 411Some notes on the Medieval Clock in Salisbury Cathedral, Michael Maltin ..................................................... 438John Smith Pittenweem, 1770-1814, part 2, Felix Hudson ................................................................................... 443Precise ratio epicyclic gears by Onesiphore Pecquer, by G. White ....................................................................... 446

Vol.20/6The Coventry Watch Movement Manufacturing Company Limited, by D.H. Bacon ......................................... 502Clockmaking in York: An Overview, by John R.M. Setchell .................................................................................. 534Paul Garnier's Engine Counter, by Christopher Hurrion ...................................................................................... 541The Two Clocks in Orleton Parish Church, by Graham Hodgetts ........................................................................ 547

VOLUME 21 1993

Vol.21/1Christiaan Huygens, The Royal Society and Horology, by J.H. Leopold ............................................................. 37The Astronomers Royal and the Problem of Longitude, by Derek Howse ........................................................... 43John Harrison Copley Medallist, by Andrew King ................................................................................................. 52The Eighteenth Century Transit of Venus, The Voyages of Captain James Cook and the Early Development ofthe Marine Chronometer, by Jonathon Betts .......................................................................................................... 60The Pit and the Pendulum: G.B. Airy and the Determination of Gravity, by Allan Chapman ........................ 70

Vol.21/2Vulliamy Musical Clocks for the Turkish Market, The Benhacok Clocks, by Roger Smith and David Thompson ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 118A minute repeating Watch Circa 1715. Friedberg's Ingenuity in a Biased Market, by Sebastian Whitestone ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 145Horology under the Hammer. Auction review 1992-93 Part 1 - Watches, by Paul Tuck ................................... 158

Vol.21/3Early Lancashire Watch Fusee Engines (Part 1), by P.H.J. Baker ...................................................................... 215A Mid-Eighteenth Century Alarm by Gray and Vulliamy, by Charles Allix....................................................... 241Horology and Navigation: The Chronometers on Vancouver's Expedition, 1791-95, by Alun C. Davies ........ 244Early Astronomical Watches, by George Foster ...................................................................................................... 256

Vol.21/4Early Lancashire Watch Fusee Engines (Part II), by P.H.J. Baker ..................................................................... 315Horology Under the Hammer, Auction Review 1993,Part- 2 Clocks, by Paul Tuck ........................................... 335An Examination of the Cases of two Tompion Year Equation Clocks, by Tom Robinson.................................. 342The Planet watchers of Greenwich, From Household Words, A Weekly Journal Conducted by Charles Dickens ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 350The Art of Time at Harvard: Museum Exhibitions at the Longitude Symposium, 1993, by Alun C. Davies . 352

Vol.21/5The "Robert the Bruce Watch", by David Thompson .............................................................................................. 407Vulliamy Clock Numbering A postscript by Roger Smith ...................................................................................... 427John Smith Pittenweem, 1770-1814, Final Part, by Felix Hudson ...................................................................... 430Who was Charles Shepherd? by Dr F.G. Shenton ................................................................................................... 438Restoration of the "Gros Horloge" at Rouen in 1889, by A.J. Turner ................................................................... 446

Vol.21/6Watchmaking in Wales, Part 1, by D.H. Bacon ....................................................................................................... 495Charles Shepherd's Electric Clocks, by Denys Vaughan ........................................................................................ 519Notes on Toy Watches, by Simon Bendall ................................................................................................................ 531Clocks in the Greenwich List of Observatories Amendment List No 1, by Derek Howse ................................. 536A Perpetual Almanack, by Charles Aked ................................................................................................................. 540

VOLUME 22 1995

Vol.22/1Early Musical Clocks, by J.J.L. Haspels ................................................................................................................... 23Horology under the Hammer Watches at Auction, 1993-1994 by Paul Tuck ...................................................... 50Watchmaking in Wales, Part 2, by D.H. Bacon ....................................................................................................... 58Vulliamy Musical Clocks, by Roger Smith and David Thompson ......................................................................... 66

Vol.22/2 1Frank Hope-Jones and George Bennett Bowell a study of the period 1895-1905, by J.S. Cowsill ................... 118List of Lists by Francis Wadsworth........................................................................................................................... 130Water-Driven Clocks, by Allan A. Mills .................................................................................................................... 136The Meandering Microcosm, by John R. Millburn .................................................................................................. 160Thomas Yeates Revisited, by Albert Oldmark ......................................................................................................... 162A Wall Alarm Clock by James Woolley of Codnor, by Jeff Darken ....................................................................... 164

Vol.22/3Two Henry Hindleys in Greater Manchester, by Edmund Davies ....................................................................... 166A Very Important Chapter Added to the History of the Self-Winding Watch, by Joseph Flores ..................... 214Two Vulliamy Watches with Royal Associations,David Thompson and Roger Smith ....................................... 230Picture Gallery. 30 hour clock by Humphrey Marsh of Highworth ...................................................................... 248Hourglasses on Some English and Scottish Tombstones, by David J. Boullin and Anne Nairn-Clark ........... 252John Joyne, Secret Agent, by Ivan Slee .................................................................................................................... 254

Vol.22/4Horology Under the Hammer, by Paul Tuck............................................................................................................ 302The Kessels Sidereal Clock, by Christopher Wood .................................................................................................. 312The Fruit and Flowers of James Wilson, by M.H. Tennant ................................................................................... 320Picture Gallery, Paton’s Plate .................................................................................................................................... 339Optional Extras, Henry Hindley of York, by J.R. Melvin. .................................................................................. 344

Vol.22/5Josiah Emery, Watchmaker of Charing Cross, by Jonathon Betts ....................................................................... 394The Meath-Bowell Constant Force Electrically Maintained Clock, by Richard Good........................................ 402The Marine Chronometers in the Collection of The Mariners Museum, by Willem F.J. Morzer Bruyns andJeanne Willoz-Egnor ................................................................................................................................................... 409The Accurate Compensation of Graham's Mercurial Pendulum, by A.D. Stewart ............................................. 416The Planet Watchers of Greenwich, by Graham Hodgetts .................................................................................... 436A Knibb Conundrum, by Ron Kirkpatrick................................................................................................................ 438Thomas Tompion No 300, by John Winterton ......................................................................................................... 440George Graham and two Manchester Men, by Edmund Davies ........................................................................... 442

Vol.22/6The Third Seafaring Nation: The Introduction of the Marine Chronometer in the Netherlands, by J.H.Leopold .......................................................................................................................................................................... 486Horology under the Hammer: Watches at Auction, Part 1, by Paul Tuck ........................................................... 501Josiah Emery: Part 2, Precision Pioneer, by Jonathan Betts ................................................................................ 510An Articulated Rack, by Tim Branfield .................................................................................................................... 541A Mystery Timer by John A. Robey ........................................................................................................................... 542The Hourglass and Trade Symbols on Scottish Tombstones, Further Notes, by John M.T. Howat and TrudieE. Roberts ...................................................................................................................................................................... 544

VOLUME 23 1996

Vol.23/1Josiah Emery: Part 3, The Lever Escapement, by Jonathan Betts ...................................................................... 26Horology Under the Hammer: Watches at Auction, Part 2, by Paul Tuck .......................................................... 45Horology and Acts of Parliament, by G.H. Sykes .................................................................................................... 67Pin Countwheels, by John A. Robey .......................................................................................................................... 71

Vol.23/2Watch Production in English Factories, 1870-1930, by D.H. Bacon ..................................................................... 117Josiah Emery: Part 4, The Surviving Lever Watches, by Jonathan Betts .......................................................... 134E. Pitcher & Co. (1880-1973), by Harvey Pitcher .................................................................................................... 151Manton's 'In Vacuo' Chronometers, by Christopher Wood ..................................................................................... 165Trade Symbols on a Scottish Tombstone, by Paul H.J. Baker .............................................................................. 168Fire At Thwaites, by Roger Smith ............................................................................................................................. 172Watch Statistics, by Chris Mckay .............................................................................................................................. 172

Vol.23/3Josiah Emery: Part 5, The Late Marine Timekeepers, by Jonathan Betts ......................................................... 216James Murray, Horologist of Distinction: London and Calcutta, by Geoffrey C. Crabtree ............................... 233The Performance of a Victorian Dead-Beat Regulator by Richard Webster, by A.D. Stewart ......................... 241Picture Gallery, Monument to Henry Jones in St Dunstans in the West ............................................................ 257Experts and Collectors by John Plowman ................................................................................................................ 260

Vol.23/4The Watches of Ellicotts of London: Part 1, by David Thompson ......................................................................... 306British Railway Clocks II. The South Eastern and Chatham Railway & Constituent Companies, by D.R. Parr ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 322Some Account of Liverpool Watch Case Makers, 1785-1798, by D.S. Moore and P.T. Priestley ...................... 341

Vol.23/5Clockmaking in Medieval Prague, by Jaroslav Folta ............................................................................................. 405Horology Under the Hammer: Clocks at Auction, by Paul Tuck........................................................................... 418The Watches of Ellicotts of London:Part 2, by David Thompson .......................................................................... 429

Vol.23/6Corrigendum: Medieval Clockmaking in Prague .................................................................................................... 507The Marine Chronometers of the Baudin Expedition to Australia, by Hilary King .......................................... 508Louise Berthoud and the Finding of Longitude at Sea, by Jean-Claude Sabrier ............................................... 522James Foggo: Watchmaker & Radical, by Mike & Chris Helps ............................................................................ 535Early Automatic Wristwatches .................................................................................................................................. 550

VOLUME 24 1998

Vol.24/1The Double Clocks by Daniel Quare, by Jonathan Betts ....................................................................................... 30A new Method of Examining the Profiles of Watch Gear Teeth, by Paul H J Baker ......................................... 36The Transmission of Time by Wireless, by David Read ......................................................................................... 42The Great Lantern Clock from Sutton Court, by David Evans ............................................................................. 47Horological & Other items held in the British Museum for the Society .............................................................. 66Picture Gallery: Old Sundials Cigarette Cards W D & H O Wills ........................................................................ 63

Vol.24/2Surviving Marine Timekeepers by Louise Berthoud, by Hilary King .................................................................. 119William Bowyer Great Clock Maker, by John Hooper ............................................................................................ 122A Proposal for the Striking Mechanism on the Wallingford Clock, by Daryl Bender ........................................ 134Watchmen’s Clocks, by Alfred Thomas ..................................................................................................................... 141‘Nix’ and Old Clocks Alfred Jonathan Nixseaman (1886-1977), by David Nixseaman ...................................... 147A 30 Hour Clock by Thomas Kefford, with an unusual Countwheel, by David Harris ...................................... 149Picture Gallery: William Cattell longcase, 152 Richard Colston bracket clock .................................................. 154

Vol.24/3A Bell Ringer’s Clock, by Michael Grange ................................................................................................................ 210A Proposal for the Eclipse Mechanism on the Wallingford Clock, by Daryl Bender .......................................... 217Henry Harper or Harpur 1642-1708, by Selby Whittingham ................................................................................ 225Archibald Miller Clockmaker & the Hammermen of Glasgow, by Trevor Waddington .................................... 229The detrmination of the Difference in meridians of the Paris & Greenwich Observatories, by ChristopherWood .............................................................................................................................................................................. 234Countwheels with projections & Pins, by John Robey ............................................................................................ 237The Watches of Barwise of London, by David Thompson ...................................................................................... 240Picture Gallery:Long Case clock signed by Jan Heyder Amsterdam c.1740 ....................................................... 246

Vol.24/4Time & The BBC, by Geoffrey Goodship .................................................................................................................. 307Pierre le Roy’s Watches ‘for the use of Astronomers & Seamen’, by Jean-Claude Sabrier ............................... 315Josiah Emery’s First Lever Watch, by Jonathan Betts .......................................................................................... 326The ‘Tompion’ Clocks at Northill & Ickwell-A Reappraisal, by Chris Pickford .................................................. 332The Archer Family of Clockmakers, by Barnaby Smith ......................................................................................... 345Thomas Lister’s Artificial Clockmaker, by David Barker ...................................................................................... 353Picture Gallery: A Christmas card from the Synchronome Factory 1911............................................................ 357

Vol.24/5The English Watchmaker’s Mandrel, Its Origins & development Part I, by P H J Baker & R J Law ............ 415The Devil Tavern Group, by Roger Smith ................................................................................................................ 427The First Steps of the Pendulum as a Timekeeper, by R D & R J C Dobson ...................................................... 432Horology under the Hammer Watches at Auction 1996-1998, by Paul Tuck ...................................................... 442Samuel Deacon’s First Clock?, by W J Thornton ..................................................................................................... 455Picture Gallery: Bracket Clock, by Francis Robinson ............................................................................................. 458Quarter repeating pair-cased watch signed by Thompion ..................................................................................... 460

Vol.2/6Rediscovering Josef Weidenheimer (1758-1795) and Clockmaking in the German-speaking Countries, by PeterFriess ............................................................................................................................................................................. 523The English Watchmaker’s Mandrel Part II, by P H J Baker & R J Law ........................................................... 539Horological Wheel Cutting by mechanical Means, by Jeremy Evans .................................................................. 551The York Mansion House Clocks by Henry Hindley, by David Barker................................................................ 556French Morez Tower Clocks, by Charles Allix ......................................................................................................... 567Picture Gallery: Silver Cased Verge Independent Stop Watch by Daniel Delander .......................................... 570

VOLUME 25 1999

Vol.25/1Sun,Moon & Stars, Telling the time with Astronomical Instruments from the British Museum, by SilkeAckermann .................................................................................................................................................................... 31Picture Gallery: Lantern Clock Dial by Benjamin Hill, ........................................................................................ 47The Strasbourg Cathedral Clock, by Gunther Oestmann ...................................................................................... 50Turret Clocks with Off-set Pendulums, by David W Durst ................................................................................... 64Horology under the Hammer, 1996-1998, by David Harris ................................................................................... 69The Twenty Four Hour Striking Mechanism described in the Richard of Wallingford Manuscript, by KennethJ Ming ............................................................................................................................................................................ 85

Vol.25/2Scallop-shell Marked Turret Clocks, Leonard Tennant Turret-Clock Maker & His School Part I, by JeremyEvans ............................................................................................................................................................................. 149The Vertical Stackfreed. Mechanical Evidence & Early Eye-Witnesses, by G Brusa and J.H.Leopold .......... 166John Flamsteed, Richard Towneley and the Equation of Time, by Tony Kitto .................................................. 180A reconstruction of the Tompion/Towneley/Flamsteed ‘Great Clocks’ at Greenwich, by Alan Smith ............. 185Missing Watch case marks 1739-1770, by Philip Priestley ................................................................................... 191Black Forest Wheel Cutting Engines or Raderschneidzeug, by Theodore R Crom ............................................ 198Picture Gallery: Astronomical regulator by George Graham 1750; Lund’s Patent Synchronised Clock c.1880;Precision Interval timer by William Hardy c1825; a bracket clock by William Cattell c.1685; ........................ ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 201

Vol.25/3AHS Continental Study Tour Sept 1999, by Jim Arnfield & Denys Vaughan .................................................... 263Early English Pendulum Clocks, by Michael Hurst ............................................................................................... 278Picture Gallery: Detached Centre-Seconds Gold Watch; Rocking Bow watch; Watch by the New York StandardWatch Co.; an unusual system of alarm work ......................................................................................................... 293A regulator for Nice Observatory in 1930, by Francois Le Guet Tully & Anthony Turner ............................... 297Scallop-shell Marked Turret Clocks, Leonard Tennant Turret-Clock Maker and his school Part II, by JeremyEvans ............................................................................................................................................................................. 303Samuel Deacon ‘An Account of Myself’ Part I, by W.J. Thornton ......................................................................... 324

Vol.25/4Scallop-shell Marked Turret Clocks, Leonard Tennant Turret-Clock Maker and his school Part III, by JeremyEvans ............................................................................................................................................................................. 388A reassessment of the Clocks of John Hilderson & other members of the ‘East School’, by Anthony Weston 407Horology Under the hammer: Clocks in auction during 1999, by David Harris ................................................. 433Notes: An unusual Tavern Clock by John Drury, by Thomas Ellis-Rees............................................................. 450An early Turret Clock at Beaulieu Abbey?, by William Linnard .......................................................................... 453Picture Gallery: Illustrations found on 19th century Longcase clock dials, by Frances Tennant ..................... 454

Vol.25/5Watches in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford Part I, by David Thompson ........................................................... 501Picture Gallery: A Memorail in The Frauenkirche, Munich; a Bristol style lantern clock dial; a Calendar forLife ................................................................................................................................................................................. 520Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises: or Every Man his own Clock-Smith, by M.T Wright ......................................... 524Samuel Deacon ‘An Acount of Myself’ Part II - The First Notebook, by W.J. Thornton .................................... 532A Perpetual Almanack ‘Ionathan Ienins Owner Raiph Rowntre Me Fecit’, by Jeff Darken ............................. 541A Quarter-striking Longcase by Whitehurst of Derby No.2830, by Tobias Birch............................................... 550Hindley of York: an Eight Day Long-case Clock, by Trevor Waddington ............................................................ 554

Vol.25/6Tompion’s smallest clock copied and contemplated, by Sebastian Whitehouse .................................................. 617Watches in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford Part II, by David Thompson .......................................................... 622William Palmer & his Electric Clock System, by Denys Vaughan ....................................................................... 643The McCabes Watch & Clockmakers of Ulster Part I, by David A Bell ............................................................... 653A rare Philadelphia Longcase Clock by William Stretch with Bolt-and-Shutter maintaining power, by RichardA Mones ......................................................................................................................................................................... 680Picture Gallery: an early Provincial Eight-Day Clock; a deck watch/hack watch by Pennington London ..... 641

VOLUME 26 2001

Vol.26/1Horology Under the Hammer Watches at Auction 1998-2000, by Paul Tuck ..................................................... 25Arnold 75 revisited, by M.E. Cattermole .................................................................................................................. 42Benjamin Hill Some Further Notes, by Jeremy Evans .......................................................................................... 52The McCabes Watch & Clockmakers of Ulster Part II, by David A Bell ............................................................. 62The Cassiobury Park and Dover Castle Turret Clocks Some Further Notes, by Ken Ming ............................. 79Picture Gallery: Portrait Medal of Ferdinando Carli .............................................................................................. 84

Vol.26/2The Vaughans of Pontypool A Family of Clockmakers & Their Clocks, by William Linnard ........................... 137Leicester’s Automaton Clock, by Allan A Mills........................................................................................................ 149George Newton of Seend – A Recently Discovered Clock, by John Hooper ......................................................... 160Thomas Tompion’s Workmens’ Clocks, by Jonathan Betts .................................................................................... 165A History of the Clock from Holy Trinity Church, Whitehaven, by Paul Platt ................................................... 175The Clocks of St Andrew Hubbard Eastcheap Billingsgate, by Jeremy Evans .................................................. 179Short notes on a clock by Hilkiah Bedford, by Jeff Darken ................................................................................... 184Picture Gallery: A Mid-Seventeenth Century Musical Box ................................................................................... 188

Vol.26/3Picture Gallery: An early rack lever pocket watch by Peter Litherland; a Musical Spring Clock by JosephAntram 1715 ................................................................................................................................................................. 242The Brockbanks - Chronometer Makers of London Part I, by F von Osterhausen ............................................ 244James Harold Agar Baugh Pendulum Maker, by Alfred Thomas ........................................................................ 257Samuel Deacon ‘An account of Myself’ Part III – The First Notebook, by W.J. Thornton ................................ 263The Horologium-a Critical Review, by R.C and R.J.C Dobson .............................................................................. 274A Gold Watch for Captain Smith, by David Thompson .......................................................................................... 281A Thirty-hour Musical Clock by Arthur David, by John Hooper .......................................................................... 284

Vol.26/4The Brockbanks Chronometer Makers of London Part II, by F von Osterhausen ............................................. 355Picture Gallery: A mechanical Almanack by Christian Boyling, Gothic Wall Clock 1533, Domestic iron clocksby Erhard Liechti 1572 ............................................................................................................................................... 376Philip Melanchton’s Watch dated 1530, by Maia Wellington Gahtan & George Thomas ................................. 377Black Forest Clockmakers Carriers and Retailers with UK connections, by Paul Buck ................................... 389Westfield’s Paten, by Paul Tuck ................................................................................................................................ 407Clocks of the Church of Allhallows Staining, by Jeremy Evans ........................................................................... 414A Norman Carved Stone used as a Church Clock Weight, by Graham Hodgetts ............................................... 424

Vol.26/5Langley Bradley: ’A Judicious Workman’ Part I: Historical Details & Domestic Output, by Brynn Hodgson ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 477Picture Gallery: Detached English Lever Watch with Massey Escapement; Timepiece by John Drury; Openface chronograph by John Poole, London 1874 ........................................................................................................ 500Some Early Clocks from Nuremberg, by John Leopold .......................................................................................... 505Samuel Harlow of Ashbourne and his Longcase Movements, by John A. Robey ................................................ 527An unusual longcase clock with astronomical dial, by Mike Cowham ................................................................. 546

Vol.26/6Langley Bradley: ’A Judicious Workman’ Part II Turret Clocks, by Brynn Hodgson ........................................ 611Picture Gallery: The Selby Lowndes Tompion No 217 ........................................................................................... 626French Clocks in American Collections, by William J Andrewes ......................................................................... 628Notes: The Torado Court Cases: Robbery & Murder, by Jeremy Evans .............................................................. 654The Werner Tabernacle Clock, by Thomas Ellis Rees ............................................................................................ 659Queen Caroline’s Watch, by Clare Woodward ......................................................................................................... 664

VOLUME 27 2002

Vol.27/1Horological News – Dan Parkes’ obit. ....................................................................................................................... 28Langley Bradley: ‘A Judicious Workman’ Part III: St Paul’s Cathedral, by Brynn Hodgson ........................... 35Samuel Deacon ’An Account of Myself’ Part IV – The First Notebook, by W J Thornton ................................. 52Mainspring Makers of London and Liverpool – Some Observations and lists, by J Evans .............................. 63More Mudge Milestones, by John Cheetham ........................................................................................................... 90Henry Hindley and the Lancashire Connection, by Chris Watson ....................................................................... 94Picture Gallery: Two Orpheus clocks ........................................................................................................................ 106

Vol.27/2The Early Watchmakers of Toxteth Park Near Liverpool and the origins of the industry, The Aspinwalls withnotes on their successors, by R J Griffiths ............................................................................................................... 163Henry Jones – Clockmaker of London. Part I of IV: His Life, by C Stuart Kelley ............................................. 179Joseph Knibb’s first Grand Sonnerie Clock, by John C Taylor ............................................................................. 196Picture Gallery: Silver Deck watch by Charles Frodsham; Micrometer Chronograph by Nielsen; Frank HoldenElectric Clock ................................................................................................................................................................ 202Donald Hill and Arabic Water-Clocks, by A J Turner ............................................................................................ 206

Vol.27/3Epicyclic Gearing & the Atikethyra Mechanism Part I, by M T Wright .............................................................. 270The Completest Piece I Made - Samuel Deacon’s Musical Clock, by W J Thornton .......................................... 280John Holmes, A View on his Life and Work, by Chris Watson.............................................................................. 289Octavius Morgan, Horological Collector Part I: The Early Years, by David Thompson .................................... 302Picture Gallery: Three dialled astronomical clock by Thomas Barry ................................................................... 322Note: Baker’s Patent Chronometer by John Clifford .............................................................................................. 327Note: The colourful Douglas Lapraik by Peter Hansell .......................................................................................... 331Roll of Founder Members ............................................................................................................................................ 333

Vol.27/4French Oignon Watches with a Central Fusee, by Adolphe Chapiro ................................................................... 380Picture Gallery – The Utrecht Jacquemarts Musical Clock, John Arnol Marine Chronometer No.12 ........... 388Was Banger really Fired?, by Guy Boney ................................................................................................................. 392Octavius Morgan, Horological Collector Part II, by David Thompson ................................................................. 406Note: English Keyless Winding Watches, by M Gibbons ....................................................................................... 423Note: The Early Background of Samuel Deacon, by W J Thornton ...................................................................... 428

Vol.27/5Samuel Knibb’s Cupola Clock: Modern techniques aid restoration Decisions, by Matthew King and John C.Taylor ............................................................................................................................................................................. 499William Murdock 1745-1839, by J M Plowman ....................................................................................................... 502John Hyancinthe Magellan (1722-1790) Part 1: Horological and Scientific Agent, by J.Betts......................... 509Henry Jones –Clockmaker of London Part II of IV: His work, by C Stuart Kelley ............................................ 518Picture Gallery: Sundials in Devon & Cornwall ...................................................................................................... 547

Vol.27/6Picture Gallery: Lantern Clock by Samuel Stretch................................................................................................. 608The Kingwood Graham ............................................................................................................................................... 612Octavius Morgan: Horological Collector Part III, by D. Thompson ...................................................................... 618John Holmes (1727-97) Time for a Further Look, by C. Watson ........................................................................... 643John White of Coventry: Watchmaker to the Admiralty, by J Hassell ................................................................ 654Almanus Re-Examined, by J Leopold ....................................................................................................................... 665Notes: An astronomical Journeyman Clock by John Holmes, by M Read ........................................................... 673Notes: Two rare books, by Jonathan Betts ............................................................................................................... 677Notes: New books old books and some thoughts on Robert Hooke, by Jeff Darken ........................................... 681

VOLUME 28 2004

Vol.28/1The King, the Clock and the Blue Whale, by Maria van Kersen-Halbertsma .................................................... 32An examination of World Globe Clocks, by Edward Powell ................................................................................... 37The Lever Escapement, the Unexplained Divergence of Developments on the European Continent and inEngland, by Adolphe Chapiro .................................................................................................................................... 52Picture Gallery: Astronomical Clock by John Naylor ............................................................................................. 73Four train Musical Clock by Samuel Deacon ........................................................................................................... 78Notes: The Sundial at St Laurence’s Church, Ludlow, by Michael Page ............................................................. 83Hammer Marks as a Diagnostic Method in Horology, by John Robey ................................................................. 85A Lantern Clock with three dials, by Mike Cowham .............................................................................................. 88The Rouse Regulator, by Simon Johnson ................................................................................................................. 91

Vol.28/2Thomas Tompion’s Spring Clock Innovations, by John Taylor ............................................................................. 153John Hyacinth de Magellan Part 2: The early clocks, by Jonathan Betts ........................................................... 173Picture Gallery: Jules Jurgensen Watch .................................................................................................................. 184Two Cuckoo Clocks by Johan Baptist Beha ............................................................................................................. 187Henry Jones Clockmaker of London Part III of IV: The engraving on his clocks, by C Stuart Kelley ........... 192Notes: The Folio Turret Clock at Llanthony, by William Linnard........................................................................ 240The Horological Gravestone in Lydford Parish, by Silvio Bedini .......................................................................... 245

Vol.28/3Thomas Tompion at the Dial and Three crowns, by Jeremy Evans ..................................................................... 316Octavius Morgan, Horological Collector Part IV, by David Thompson ................................................................ 337Mudge and Reynolds, by Sebastian Whitestone ...................................................................................................... 348The Other Turret Clock from Cassiobury, by Ken Ming ........................................................................................ 353Picture Gallery: Thomas Starck Monstrance Clock ................................................................................................ 360Leroy & Cie Chronostat III ......................................................................................................................................... 365Peter Farvarger & Cie Railway Chronograph ......................................................................................................... 366Thirty Hour Clock Malkin-Kirby ............................................................................................................................... 368Thomas Tompion’s Two Train Grande Sonnerie Mechanism, by George Daniels .............................................. 370

Vol.28/4Thomas Tompion at the Dial and Three Crowns, Part II, by Jeremy Evans ...................................................... 437Tompion No 145 A True Dutch Striking English Clock, by Melgert Spaander .................................................. 460The Touch of Time, Helen Keller & her Pocket Watch, by Silvio A Bedini ......................................................... 473Notes: Repair of worn clock pinions & pivots by laser welding, by Brian Coles and Peter Powell ................. 480Henry Ireland at Ye Bell in Louthbury Fecit, by Jeff Darken & Tom Spittler ................................................... 485St Peter Port’s Town Clock, by Malcolm Savage ..................................................................................................... 488Notes on the Pendulum of the Great Westminster Clock, by John Warner ........................................................ 490Picture Gallery: A Renaissance Clock Case ............................................................................................................ 453John Ellicott Longcase Regulator .............................................................................................................................. 456

Vol.28/5The Coster-Fromanteel Contract Re-examined, by Frits van Kersen .................................................................. 561Some more notes on the Coster-fromanteel Contract, by J Leopold ..................................................................... 56817th & 18th century clock demand, production & survival an economical & statistical analysis, by Chris H KWilliams ........................................................................................................................................................................ 571Who Invented rack & snail Striking? The early development of Repeat & rack striking, by John Robey ...... 584Octavius Morgan, Horological Collector Part V, by David Thompson.................................................................. 602Detailed notes on Samuel Deacon’s Musical Clock of 1790, by Jeff Darken ....................................................... 619Picture Gallery: Gold Pocket Chronometer David Morice, London ...................................................................... 636Half-Quarter repeater Godfrie Poy, London ............................................................................................................ 638Victorian Strut Clock ................................................................................................................................................... 642

Vol.28/6The Hermitage Peacock, by Yuna Zek and Roger Smith ....................................................................................... 699Henry Jones- Clockmaker of London Part IV of IV, by C Stuart Kelley .............................................................. 721Ludlow Church Bells, Clock & Chimes 1460-1900, by Michael Page ................................................................... 744Pneumatic Clocks, by David Read ............................................................................................................................. 754Timepiece for a Pontiff? by Silvio Bedini .................................................................................................................. 765Picture Gallery: 30hr wall alarm clock, by Wm Warren, London ........................................................................ 71730hr wall alarm clock by Thos. Ranger, Chipstead ................................................................................................. 718Rolex Prince Wristwatch ............................................................................................................................................. 720

VOLUME 29 2005

Vol 29/1Sir Thomas Wendy’s Lantern Clock by W.J. Thornton .......................................................................................... 28Portable Sundial Making in Nuremberg, by Mike Cowham .................................................................................. 45Epicyclic Gearing and the Antikythera Mechanism, Part II, by M.T. Wright .................................................... 51The Clockmakers of Charing, Kent, by Chris H K Williams ................................................................................. 64

Vol 29/2The Hindleys, the Bradshaws and the Farmer’s Watch, by Chris Watson ......................................................... 164Clocks in the Church of Saint Jerome at Digne-les-bains, 1414-1985, by Anthony Turner .............................. 170An Iden Timepiece, by J. Plowman ........................................................................................................................... 179Octavius Morgan, Horological Collector Part Six, by David Thompson ............................................................... 189Huber-Mudge and the first Constant Force Escapement, by Anthony G. Randall with an Introduction byDerek Pratt .................................................................................................................................................................. 217Ludlow Church Bells, Clock & Chimes 1460-1900 Part 2 – The Chimes of St Laurence’s Church, Ludlow, byMichael Page................................................................................................................................................................. 227

Vol 29/3The Antikythera Mechanism and the early History of the Moon-phase display, by M.T. Wright ................... 319Swedish Forgeries, by Jan Kraminer ........................................................................................................................ 330Some Mid-eighteenth Century Craftsmen Gray & Vulliamy Outworkers and Suppliers c.1760, by Roger Smith ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 348‘Occasion’s Bald Behind’ A Neoclassical Dial by John Owen of Llanrwst, by William Linnard ....................... 359The Church Clocks of Charing, Kent, by Chris H.K. Williams ............................................................................. 371

Vol 29/4John Harrison and the Astronomers Royal of his Period, by Arnold Wolfendale ............................................... 468John Harrison Clockmaker, Part 1: His First Longcase Clocks, 1713-17, by Andrew King ............................. 475John Harrison’s Watchcase Makers, by Philip Priestley ....................................................................................... 489John Harrison Clockmaker, Part 2: The Brocklesby Turret Clock, c.1722, by Andrew King ........................... 496Harrison’s Grasshopper Escapement, by John C. Taylor ....................................................................................... 513The Fate of Harrison’s Timekeepers, by Jonathan Betts ....................................................................................... 522A Chronology of John Harrison, by Andrew King ................................................................................................... 528Bibliography of Published and Manuscript Sources Relating to John Harrison, by William J.H. Andrewes 530The Images of John Harrison, by Andrew King ...................................................................................................... 538

Vol 29/5Maria and Ruth Belville: Competition for Greenwich Time Supply, by David Rooney .................................... 614Octavius Morgan, Horological Collector, Part Seven, by David Thompson ......................................................... 629The Eminent Pierre Le Roy in the Art of Timekeeping, Part 1: up to about 1765, by Giuseppe Brusa andCharles Allix ................................................................................................................................................................. 645Scientists, Sea Trials and International Espionage: Who Really Invented the Balance Spring Watch?, by LisaJardine ........................................................................................................................................................................... 663

Vol 29/6The Early Balance Spring Watch: A Brief History, by Martin Ball...................................................................... 760The Eminent Pierre Le Roy in the Art of Timekeeping, Part II: Marine Timekeepers and Watches, by CharlesAllix and Giuseppe Brusa .......................................................................................................................................... 775Evidence from the Transient: The Importance of Ephemera for a Proper Understanding of the Clock andWatch Trades: Part I, by David Penney ................................................................................................................... 790‘A Clock for the Rooms’: The Horological Legacy of the Library Company of Philadelphia, by Jay Robert Stiefel ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 804

VOLUME 30 2007

Vol 30/1John Hyacinth De Magellan (1722-1790) Part3: The Later Clocks and Watches, by Jonathan Betts ........... ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 25Evidence from the Transient: The Importance of Ephemera for a Proper Understanding of the Clock andWatch Trades: Part II, by David Penney .................................................................................................................. 45Evan Davies alias Myfyr Morganwg Arch-druid, Philomath, Clockmaker, by William Linnard ..................... 66Some Notes on an Iron-framed Chamber Clock, by K.J. Ming .............................................................................. 76An Unusual Split-second Chronograph made by Clerke, 1 Royal Exchange, London, by Mike Cowham....... 82Eardley Norton’s 1771 Patent for Striking Clocks & Repeating Watches, by John A. Robey........................... 88

Vol 30/2Evidence from the Transient: The Importance of Ephemera for a Proper Understanding of the Clock andWatch Trades: Part III, by David Penney ................................................................................................................ 177The Prototypes of ‘Hague Clocks’ and ‘Pendules Religieuses’ 350 Years after Salomon Coster’s First Clock, byReinier Plomp ............................................................................................................................................................... 196Birmingham Dialmakers: Some Biographical Notes: Part I, by John A. Robey ................................................. 209A Striking Discovery: The Seal of a Horologiarius, by Nicola Rogers and Richard Hall ................................... 223

Vol 30/3Some Seventeenth-century Painted Enamel Watch-cases and their Movements, by Clare Vincent ............... 317A Claim for Finding the Longitude at Sea by Zumbach de Koesfelt, by Hans Hooijmaijers ............................ 347John Hyacinth De Magellan (1722-1790) Part 4: The Precision Pioneers, by Jonathan Betts......................... 365The Jourdain Family of Spitalfields, London Specialists in Chime and Musical Work, by Clive Ponsford .... 380

Vol 30/4Birmingham Dialmakers: some Biographical Notes: Part II, by John A. Robey ................................................ 470Chronometers on East India Company Ships 1800 to 1833, by Phillip Arnott ................................................... 481‘Such Great Inventors as the Late Mr Lund’: An Introduction to The Standard Time Company, 1870-1970, byJames Nye & David Rooney ....................................................................................................................................... 501Wills of Clock and Watchmakers on-line from The National Archives: Part I, by Clive N. Ponsford.............. 524

Vol 30/5A Pendulum Clock owned by the Danish Astronomer Ole Rømer (1644-1710), by Reinier Plomp .................. 624The Sing-song Trade: Exporting Clocks to China in the Eighteenth Century, by Roger Smith....................... 629The Longcase Painted Dial in Liverpool, by Frances Tennant.............................................................................. 659Two Renaissance Clocks Punchmarked PP, by Michael Hurst ............................................................................. 675Wills of Clock and Watchmakers on-line from The National Archives: Part II : The City of London andMiddlesex (A-J), by Clive N. Ponsford ...................................................................................................................... 680

Vol 30/6Notes on the Patent, Functionality and Mechanisms of the Portable Pillar Barometers by Daniel Quare, byRichard Higgins ........................................................................................................................................................... 787The Octavius Morgan Archive: Addenda, by David Thompson ............................................................................. 798Wills of Clock and Watchmakers on-line from The National Archives: Part III : The City of London andMiddlesex (K-Z), by Clive N. Ponsford ...................................................................................................................... 804The Early English Balance Spring Watch: The Hardware 1665-1677/8, by Martin Ball .................................. 818An Invasion in Time: American Horology and the British Market, by Alun C. Davies ..................................... 829

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AntiQuarian Horologyand the Proceedings of the Antiquarian Horological Society

Issued Quarterly to Members

Editor: Dr Jeffrey Darken (issues 1 to 4) and Dr Peter de Clercq (issues 5 and 6) Editorial Advisory Panel: C.R.P. Allix (issue 1), M.G. Hurst, R.J. Law, J. Nye (issue 6), D. Thompson

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Wills of Clock and Watchmakers On-line From The National Archives: Part IV Case Makers and other Specialist Tradesmen (London Area) by Clive N. Ponsford ------------------------------ 31Wills of Clock and Watchmakers On-line from The National Archives: Part V Wills Proved in Country Courts by Clive N. Ponsford ------------------------------ 39Longcase Clocks from the North of England by John Robey -------------------------------------- 43Observatory Time by Radio: 1901 to 1970 from the Eiffel Tower to UTC and the Arrival of Radio Controlled Clocks by David Read ------------------------------------- 65William Harper of Antrim by David A. Bell ----------------------------------- 184A Supplementary List of Clocks made by the Jourdain Family of Spitalfields, London by Clive N. Ponsford ------------------------------ 188Sir Edward Dering’s ‘Booke of Expences’ 1617-28: His Horological Purchases, William Barrett of Ashford & Jacques of London by Chris H.K. Williams --------------------------- 194The Identification and Attribution of Christiaan Huygens’ First Pendulum Clock by Sebastian Whitestone --------------------------- 201The Scientific Anchorite – Johnson Jex the Norfolk Clockmaker: The Story of his Unique Lathe Donald J. Unwin and David W. Durst--------- 320Some Literary Subjects as Decorations on French Enamel Painted Watches from the middle of the Seventeenth Century: Part 1 by Hans Boeckh ------------------------------------ 331

The Leppers of Belfast by David A. Bell ----------------------------------- 353The Deacon Family – the Numbers Game by Colin Andrew ----------------------------------- 361Quaker Letters to a Watchmaker by William Linnard ------------------------------- 454The Contribution of South-west Lancashire to Horology Part 1: Watch and Chronometer Movement Making and Finishing by A. A. Treherne --------------------------------- 457Some Literary Subjects as Decorations on French Enamel Painted Watches from the middle of the Seventeenth Century: Part 2 by Hans Boeckh ------------------------------------ 477English Marquetry Table Clocks by Robert Donaldson ------------------------------ 499An Early ‘Silent Pull’ Clock with Gathered Rack by Brounker Watts, c.1695 by Phillip Arnott ----------------------------------- 517The Earliest Pendulum Clocks: A Re-Evaluation by David Penney ----------------------------------- 614

“Not a Bad Timekeeper: The English Lantern Clock in the Seventeenth Century” by George White ----------------------------------- 621

The Ingold Episode Revisited: English Watchmaking’s Pyrrhic Victory by Alun C. Davies --------------------------------- 637

William Caslon’s Foundry Clock by Clive N. Ponsford ------------------------------ 655

A Clock Commemorating a Huguenot Martyr by Harry Smith ------------------------------------ 744

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A Welsh Clock Club in 1812 by William Linnard ------------------------------- 88Watches – A Pamphlet by J.B. Thomas by Andrew James ---------------------------------- 223

The Intelligencer and the Instrument Maker: Early Communications in the Development of the Pendulum Clock by Rebecca Pohancenic ---------------------------- 747

John Linnard of Swansea: The Story of Two Clockmakers and Their Clocks by William Linnard ------------------------------- 757

Samuel Deacon and Apprentices by Colin Andrew & W John Thornton---------- 769

The Secret of Ploërmel: Brother Bernardin’s ------ Astronomical Clock by Bernard North --------------------------------- 783

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A Clock Dial by Thomas Elmes by Jeff Darken ---------------------------------------659

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PICTURE GALLERYAn Early Seventeenth Century Lantern Clock signed ‘William Bowyer Fecit’ ---------------------- 92

A 30-Hour Clock With Alarm signed ‘Edward Sidwell Londini’ ------------------- 96

A ‘Painted Dial’ Watch Movement by Charles Marlow of Coventry------------------- 98

A ‘Painted Dial’ Watch signed ‘Robt Walton, London’ ----------------------- 102

Longcase Clock by Ahasuerus Fromanteel, c.1660 The Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford, Inventory No. 54420 ---- 230

Two Early Three-Train Clocks by Joseph Knibb -- 369

Longcase Clock by Ahasuerus Fromanteel, c.1660 The Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford, Inventory No. 54420 ---- 378

‘Pendulum = Clock’ signed 2nd. James Harrison Barrow 1727 ------------------------------------------ 525

John Harrison’s 1st Marine Timekeeper H1 -------- 662

A Tell-Tale Clock signed JAS WHITELAW, EDINBURGH --------------------------------------- 791

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THE ANTIQUARIAN HOROLOGICAL SOCIETYRegistered Charity No. 260925

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All correspondence should be addressed to the Secretary at ‘New House’, High Street, Ticehurst, East Sussex, TN5 7AL.Tel: (01580) 200155, fax: (01580) 201323, e-mail: secretary@ahsoc.org

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AntiquAriAn Horology

and the Proceedings of the Antiquarian Horological SocietyIssued Quarterly to Members

Editor: Dr Peter de ClercqEditorial Advisory Panel: M.G. Hurst, R.J. Law, J. Nye, D. Thompson

LIST OF ARTICLES

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The Gawen Brown Family and ‘The Last Apprentice’ by Chris Watson ------------------------------------ 31Claude Duchesne − Huguenot Clockmaker by Glen Blake, Christine Wintle and John Gill 43A Watch with Breguet’s Échappement Naturel by Keith Orford ------------------------------------ 52Twelve 10 x 8 inch Glass Plate Clock Negatives by Peter Gosnell ------------------------------------ 71The Life and Work of Louis Essen (1908−1997), Father of Atomic Time by Ray Essen ---------------------------------------- 81Peter Litherland, Liverpool and the Rack Lever by David Evans ------------------------------------ 93Watch and Clockmakers of Hong Kong by Bernard North ---------------------------------- 178The Theorist and the Instrument Maker: Early Communications in the Development of the Pendulum Clock by Rebecca Pohancenik ---------------------------- 191Early English Japanned Table Clocks by Robert Donaldson -------------------------------201Pocket Chronometer 912 by John Adam Mangaar by Tony Proctor ------------------------------------ 220The Notebook of Humphrey Hadley of Birmingham: Part 1 by John Robey -------------------------------------- 225Clock Making in Twentieth-Century England and Wales: Part 1 by John Glanville and Bill Wolmuth ------------ 231

Turret Clock ‘Discoveries’ by Clive Ponsford ---------------------------------- 250

The Coster-Fromanteel Contract: John Fromanteel’s Brass and Steel by John C. Taylor ---------------------------------- 336

Clock Making in Twentieth-Century England and Wales: Part 2 by John Glanville and Bill Wolmuth ------------ 343

New Discoveries of Clocks by Samuel Roberts of Llanfair Caereinion by W.T.R. Pryce -------------------------------------361

The Oeuvre of a Master Clockmaker Henry Williams, Lancarvan by William Linnard and Ed Cloutman --------- 379

An Unusual English Lantern Clock by John A. Robey ---------------------------------- 405

Watch-pads and Watch-papers by Anthony Turner--------------------------------- 417

Courtenay Adrian Ilbert, Horological Collector. Part One: The Early Years, 1888−1930 by Paul Buck --------------------------------------- 499

Spendlove Clockmakers of Suffolk and Norfolk by Trevor Spindler --------------------------------- 517

Minute Repeating in Tompion’s Lifetime by Sebastian Whitestone ----------------------------525

Arnold’s Chronometer No. 176 and Vancouver’s Expedition, 1791−95 by Alun C. Davies --------------------------------- 532

Antiquarian Horology 896

The Significance of Expense Books to Horologists. Horological Markets and the 1646−76 Experiences of James Master, a Kentish Gentleman by Chris H.K. Williams --------------------------- 541William Porthouse’s Remontoire by Simon Johnson ---------------------------------- 550

A Table Regulator signed Dancer, Manchester by Alfred Thomas ---------------------------------- 554

English Horology and the Great War by Alun C. Davies --------------------------------- 635

Sidney Better − Watch Springer and Timer by Paul Myatt -------------------------------------- 651

Admiral Lord Nelson and the Commemorative Domestic Clock by Rory McEvoy -------------------------------------665

English Lantern Clocks with Iron Frames by John A. Robey ---------------------------------- 689

The Tribulations of Jean Helot by Anthony Turner ------------------------------- 779

A Family of Longcase Movements with an Early Anchor Escapement circa 1670 by Alan Fersht -------------------------------------- 805

The Canonteign Turret Clock in Context. Clocks for Churches and Country Houses by the Pollard Family of Devon by Liam Boyle and Clive N. Ponsford ----------- -815

The Costs of Maintaining and Replacing a Seventeenth-Century Turret Clock by Edward White ---------------------------------- 831

Catling Family Pocket Watches by John David Stables ----------------------------- 837Welsh Account Books and Horology in the Seventeenth Century by William Linnard and Chris H.K. Williams ---- 841

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PICTURE GALLERYThe Dawson Workshops in London, Specialists in Repair and Restoration of Clock Cases --------- 97

Arnold Expedition Chronometer No 176 ---------- 255

A Poorly Finished but Interesting 30 Hour Movement ------------------------------------------- 424

George Graham’s Watch Number 5193 ----------- 558

John Harrison’s 2nd Marine Timekeeper H2 ------- 846

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VOLUME THIRTY-THREE

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Clock and Watchmaking in Belgium, 1300–1830 by Eddy Fraiture and Paul Van Rompay ------- 27

Constant Force Chronometer, No. 1, Attributed to Paul Garnier by Phillip Arnott ---------------------------------- 46

Astronomical Clocks in Observatories of the World and their Makers, 1670–1850. A Modified List by Jürgen Ermert ---------------------------------- 70

Thomas Hampson of ‘Wrexham’ – His Chester Phase by Steve and Darlah Thomas -------------------- 89

The Missing ‘Harrison’ Table Clock by William Andrewes and Bob Frishman ------ 180

The Electric Remontoire by David Read ------------------------------------ 190

Design and Precision of a Small Eight-Day Chronometer by Barraud by A.D. Stewart ----------------------------------- 199

On Excursions and on Song : The BHI Views New Technology in the 1870s and 1880s by Alun C. Davies -------------------------------- 207

Clocks of Pasteboard by Anthony Turner -------------------------------- 221

William Leigh of Newton-le-Willows, clockmaker 1763–1824 : Part 1 by Steve and Darlah Thomas -------------------- 311

A Large European Iron Chamber Clock by John A. Robey ---------------------------------- 335

The Chimerical English Pre-Huygens Pendulum Clock by Sebastian Whitestone -------------------------- 347

A Time-Telling Telescope by Richard Dunn and Lavinia Maddaluno ---- 359

The Antiquarian Horological Society. An Early History by James Nye --------------------------------------- 457

William Leigh of Newton-le-Willows, clockmaker 1763–1824: Part 2 by Steve and Darlah Thomas -------------------- 469

Moorfields and Clock-Brass Founders Part 1: The London Horological Trades in Moorfields by John A. Robey ---------------------------------- 479

The Synchronous Mains Revolution and ‘Time Gentlemen, Please’ by David Read ------------------------------------ 487

New Light on Jacob Lovelace by Clive N. Ponsford ------------------------------ 493

Horology at International Industrial Exhibitions – 1851–1900 by Alun C. Davies -------------------------------- 591

Moorfields and Clock-Brass Founders Part 2: The Mayor Family and Other Founders by John A. Robey ---------------------------------- 609

The History of Arnold & Dent Long Case Regulator No 308 by David Hambleton ----------------------------- 624

Antiquarian Horology 860

Horological Requests in Early Welsh Poems by William Linnard & Ann Parry Owen ------ 631God Save the King. The Automaton Ship and Silver Shagreen Case by Brittany Cox ----------------------------------- 637The Wall Clock Dated 1657 Signed Jan van Call by David Thompson ------------------------------ 739The Screws in the van Call Clock by M. T. Wright ----------------------------------- 762

Leonardo da Vinci and the Earliest Known Clock with Warned Striking by John A. Robey ---------------------------------- 775Daniel Quare 324 by Terence Camerer Cuss ------------------------- 786

An Unmarked 8-Day Time and Striking Spring Driven Movement by Peter Gosnell ----------------------------------- 791

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An Interesting Thirty-Hour Clock c.1745 Signed J P -------------------------------------------- 97

Stainton of Birmingham Advertising Card -------- 501

Japanese Pillar Clock ---------------------------------- 502

Watch Keys --------------------------------------------- 643

Portrait of Edward Scrivener ------------------------- 648

The clock-maker at his bench. A variation on the Jan Luyken engraving ------------------------------ 650

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Watch Lorgnettes by Neil Handley ---------------------------------- 227Further Notes on Jourdain Clocks by Neil Andrew ----------------------------------- 232Camerer Cuss Datelines by Terence Camerer Cuss ------------------------- 506An Intriguing Swinging Clock by Simon Kerby & Tom Meryon ---------------- 509

Big Ben – New Discoveries Part 1: Punch and the Bell by Chris McKay ----------------------------------- 514Big Ben – New Discoveries Part 2 by Chris McKay ----------------------------------- 799Joseph Knibb’s Roman Striking by Mike Cowham --------------------------------- 803

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Jan van Call and the age of the pendulum clock in the Netherlands by Pier van Leeuwen ------------------------- 33

The van Call, a modern forgery by Sebastian Whitestone -------------------- 42

Some thoughts on the van Call by Terence Camerer Cuss ------------------ 52

The van Call clock discussion ------------- 54

The Pace family of Quaker clockmakers by David Edmund Pace --------------------- 60

The mercurial chronometer balances of Edward Thomas Loseby by Phillip Arnott ------------------------------ 72

Of clocks and cats by Richard Dunn and Eóin Phillips ---- 88

Clocks and watches with enamels by William Hopkins Craft – Part 1 by Ian White ---------------------------------- 179

The time ball at Greenwich and the evolving methods of control – Part 1 by Douglas Bateman ---------------------- 198

Two clocks that changed the world. The birth of atomic timekeeping by Ray Essen --------------------------------- 219

Big Ben as an electrical master clock by Chris McKay ----------------------------- 235

The time ball at Greenwich and the evolving methods of control – Part 2 by Douglas Bateman ----------------------- 332

Clocks and watches with enamels by William Hopkins Craft – Part 2 by Ian White ---------------------------------- 347

Pennington of London: a brief history of the family, the firm and their chronometers by A. D Stewart ------------------------------ 367

Another unusual compact 8-day movement with rack & snail striking by Peter Gosnell ----------------------------- 385

The time ball at Greenwich and the evolving methods of control – Part 3 by Douglas Bateman ----------------------- 471

Mechanical clocks in the medieval Castilian royal court by Víctor Pérez Álvarez -------------------- 489

The Porrvis clock of 1567 — the earliest surviving domestic clock made in England by John Robey & Leighton Gillibrand -- 503

Ole Rømer’s temperature correction of pendulum clock rates by Poul Darnell ------------------------------ 519

Shaping the day in Wales: indications of awareness of clock time in Wales before 1800 by William Linnard ------------------------ 526

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Three of a kind -------------------------------- 94

One-day single-handed Augsburg spring timepiece, c. 1680----------------------------- 95

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Reflections on sixty years of ‘the Journal’ by John Plowman --------------------------- 100

Rare features on a clock by Jacobus Nauta by Anton Vos ---------------------------------- 102

Chronometer ‘Dent 1978’ at Aberdeen by John S. Reid ------------------------------- 104

Time consciousness in the Aran Islands by Alun C. Davies --------------------------- 539

30-hour iron wall clock dated 1748 --- 240

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VOLUME THIRTY-FIVE

Secretary: Mrs W. BARR Accountant: B. MACNAY Librarian: E. POWELL

De Amissione Temporis: Loss of Time by William Linnard ------------------------- 618

Barwise & Sons: watchmakers to the King. A brief history of family and firm by A.D. Stewart ------------------------------ 621

The House of Kullberg by Alun C. Davies --------------------------- 635

From sun and water to weights: public time devices from late Antiquity to the mid-seventeenth century by Anthony Turner -------------------------- 649

Friedberg – a centre of watch- and clockmaking in seventeenth and eighteenth century Bavaria – Part 1by Alice Arnold-Becker --------------------- 663

The German Clock Museum in Furtwangen – 160 years of collectingby Eduard C. Saluz-------------------------- 769

Friedberg – a centre of watch- and clockmaking in seventeenth and eighteenth century Bavaria – Part 2by Alice Arnold-Becker---------------------- 783

Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805–1871). From mechanical to electrical horology by Françoise Collanges -------------------- 796

The horological world of François Arsène Margaine by Thomas R. Wotruba --------------------- 807

A Scottish clock dial for determining Easter by John A. Robey ----------------------------- 827

Two automatic watch movements with verge escapement but without fuseeby Joseph Flores ----------------------------- 913

Charles Clay: fashioning timely music by Anthony Turner ------------------------- 929

Towards the ‘German chronometer’. The introduction of precision timekeeping in the German mercantile marine and Imperial Navy in the nineteenth century by Günther Oestmann---------------------- 949

Time balls at Greenwich and Adelaide – a direct personal connection by Douglas Bateman, Lesley Abell and Roger Kinns ------------------------------------ 964

A Flemish clock at the Shogun’s Shrine by Johan ten Hoeve and David Thompson --------------------------------------------------- 1063

Antoine Redier’s ingenious Comparateur Chronométrique for precise time comparisons by Phillip Arnott---------------------------- 1077

A study of English watch jewelling by Ian Greaves ----------------------------- 1085

Box chronometers for India 1800–1936 by Simon C. Davidson --------------------- 1107

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A Miniature Italian Lantern Clock ---- 1125

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Twenty-five years Dingwall-Beloe lectures by Peter de Clercq -------------------------- 767

Anatomy of a Cox musical clock by Ian White ---------------------------------- 834

The journal archive on-line by Martin Ridout ---------------------------- 906

The notebooks of John Tuck of Romsey by Peter de Clercq--------------------------- 973

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MUSEUM PROFILE

Claphams National Clock Museum,

New Zealand ---------------------------------- 838

Willard House and Clock Museum, Grafton, MA, USA --------------------------- 984

Folding fan with integrated watch ---- 1130

Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand --------------------------------- 1131

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Two June 2015 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 149–296

Three September 2015 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 297–444

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VOLUME THIRTY-SIX

Secretary: Mrs W. BARR Accountant: B. MACNAY Librarian: E. POWELL

Moncas of Liverpool. A short history of a nineteenth-century watch-making family by Michael W. Paice ------------------------- 40

Gustave Loup – his life and his horological collection – Part 1 by Ian White ---------- 53

Keeping time at Shalstone: horological tribulations of the Purefoys, 1735 to 1752 by Alun C. Davies ---------------------------- 71

The replacement of the war-damaged Shepherd dial at Greenwich by James Cooke & Son of Birmingham by Douglas Bateman ------------------------- 84

Foliot revisited – The origins of the word by Howard Bradley --------------------------- 91

A watch by Peter Henlein in London? by Dietrich Matthes ------------------------- 183

Gustave Loup – his life and his horological collection – Part 2 by Ian White -------- 195

The painted & engraved pewter longcase clock dials of Thomas Pyke Sr & Jr – Part 1by Nial Woodford ---------------------------- 212

The long and expensive pursuit of an accurate timekeeper in Blackburn, Lancashireby Steve and Darlah Thomas ------------ 225

The English usage of foliot and balance by John A. Robey ---------------------------- 239

Remembering the first battery-operated clock by Beverley F. Ronalds ------------- 244

From Burgundy to Castile. Retracing and reconstructing a fifteenth-century golden clock by Víctor Pérez Álvarez ------------ 249

The painted & engraved pewter longcase clock dials of Thomas Pyke Sr & Jr – Part 2 by Nial Woodford ---------------------------- 333

The marine chronometer in the age of electricity by David Read ----------------- 343

English provincial clockmaking 1695–1840. The role of the thirty-hour longcase clock – Part 1 by Michael Grange ------ 361

Watchmaking in Saxony – a review by Sibylle Gluch ----------------------------- 378

The British Horological Institute and the education of watchmakers, 1858 to c.1900 by Alun C. Davies --------------------------- 386

English provincial clockmaking 1695–1840. The role of the thirty-hour longcase clock – Part 2 by Michael Grange ------- 481

John & Miles Brockbank, their life and work by A.D. Stewart ---------------------- 502

Short-time measurement – the contribution of German electrical horology by Thomas Schraven ----------------------- 521

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Staatliches Museum Schwerin ----------- 102

NOTES

An exemplary clock-maker by Anthony Turner ---- ----------------------- 97

The word ‘foliot’ by William Linnard - 100

The secrets of John Arnold, watch and chronometer maker by Martyn Perrin 255

Ole Rømer’s pocket watch by Poul Darnell ------------------------------ 541

The clocks of an Anglo-Welsh knight: Sir Edward Don (1482-1551) by William Linnard ------------------------ 544

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Longcase clock by Ahasuerus Fromanteel (I), c. 1662–65 ------------------------------- 259

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Two June 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 149–296

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LIST OF ARTICLES

VOLUME THIRTY-SEVEN

Secretary: Mrs W. BARR Accountant: B. MACNAY Librarian: E. POWELL

Daniel Quare’s numbered clocksby George Kenney -------------------------------- 37

Time to reconsider—The life and work of George Bennett Bowell (1875–1942) by James Nye ------------------------------------- 55

Winner or loser. Did John Harrison win the Longitude Prize? by Andrew King ---------- 73

Horological patents, 1662–c.1800: Restraining trade, stifling innovation or rewarding invention? by Alun C. Davies -- 82

Ung petit traictie pour faire horoleiges: A little treatise for making clocks in the fourteenth centuryby William Linnard, John A. Robey and Michael T. Wright ------------------------ 182

The Henlein exhibition at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. A look back, a look forward and new discoveries by Thomas Eser --------------------------------- 199

A fourteenth-century Italian turret clock by Marisa Addomine -------------------------- 213

Ralph Gout, watchmaker (1740–1828) by David Buckden ----------------------------- 223

Quartz clocks and the public in Britain, 1930–60 by David Rooney ------------------- 237

The British naval chronometers of 1821 by A.D. Stewart --------------------------------- 247

New light on chronometer-makers and the scientific instrument trades in the nineteenth century by Gloria Clifton -------------------- 327

Concerning some curious clocks in the cabinet of Grollier de Servière by Anthony Turner ----------------------------- 349

W. E. Frodsham No.1. Another chronometer identified from HMS Beagle’s second voyage by Simon C. Davidson and Peter Linstead-Smith ------------------------- 366

Swiss watches, tariffs and smuggling with dogs by Alun C. Davies ----------------------- 377

The London Gazette as a source for the history of the English horological trade: 1720–1849 by D. J. Bryden ---------------------------------- 477

An Englishman, a Frenchman and a watchman: the cross-border life of Robert Lenoir (1898–1979) by James Nye ------------------------------------ 496

The origin of the English lantern clock Part 1: Comparison with European Gothic clocks by John A. Robey ------------------------------- 511

A Time to Remember by Rory McEvoy --- 522

A dial described in 1473 by William Linnard ---------------------------- 530

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Turret clock by James Harrison of Hull, 1845 --------------------------------------------- 111

NOTES

A Clock Club at Milford Haven in 1805 by William Linnard ---------------------------- 101

When is a Bryer not a Bryer? by Gordon Hoare ------------------------------- 105

A wrist chronograph, a radio amateur and a handful of wichety grubs by David Read ----------------------------------- 109

ANTIQUARIAN HOROLOGY

MUSEUM PROFILE

Longcase clock by Ahasuerus Fromanteel (I), c. 1662–65 ------------------------------- 259

Clocks in Schloss Ludwigslust, Germany 253

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Three September 2017 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 297–444

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VOLUME THIRTY-EIGHT

Secretary: Mrs W. BARR Accountant: B. MACNAY Librarian: E. POWELL

The origin of the English lantern clock Part 2: The earliest lantern clocks by John A. Robey 35

A royal acquisition for the Victoria and Albert Museumby Tessa Murdoch 51

The inertia escapement—William Hamilton Shortt’s first step towards the free pendulum by Tabea Rude 61

The National 15. The decline of British watchmaking and the role of Smiths in a hoped for recovery by David Read 74

A comparison of early marine timekeepers, from Harrison to Earnshaw by A.D. Stewart 90

The Crystal Palace clockby James Nye 101

Don’t mention the war! The chequered early years of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakersby George White 175

Early English horological terms by John A. Robey & William Linnard 191

Courtenay Adrian Ilbert, Horological Collector Part Two: Acquisition, 1930–1939 by Paul Buck 202

Two Poor Law clocks by Chris McKay 221

The story behind PATENT SURETY ROLLER stamped on carriage clocks by Thomas R. Wotruba 239

An impoverished innovator. Joseph Anthony Berrollas (1775–1852) by David Buckden 248

Early clocks in English woodcutsby William Linnard 255

Mechanical clocks and the advent of scientific astronomyby Dietrich Matthes & Rocío Sánchez-Barrios 328

Edward East (1602–c. 1695). Part 1 – Early Stuart period and Commonwealth by Valerie J. Finch, Adrian A. Finch, Anthony W. Finch 343

Galileo, Huygens and the invention of the pendulum clock by Sebastian Whitestone 365

Martin Burgess, sculptural clockmaker by Jonathan Betts 385

The horological legacy of Stanley John Wise by Geoffrey A. Horner 394

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The electro-magnetic verge by Chris McKay 260

Edward East (1602–c. 1695) Part 2 – The Restoration and the latter years of the East businessby Valerie J. Finch, Adrian A. Finch, Anthony W. Finch 478

The horological trade in Georgian London: evidence from Old Bailey trials by D. J. Bryden 491

Edmund Howard (1710–1798): A Quaker Clockmaker in Chelsea by James Nye 513

Adam, the Devil and the Supernatural: An unusual English lantern clock revisited by John A. Robey 533

Carriage clocks with a unique winding system: the bottom-wind by Thomas R. Wotruba 545

An interesting case by Guy Boney Q.C. 264

VOLUME THIRTY-NINE ANTIQUARIAN HOROLOGY

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LIST OF ARTICLES

Timing the stars: astronomers, clockmakers and German precision horology around 1800 by Sibylle Gluch

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New light on Osborne and Wilson by John A. Robey

251

The first transparent watch by Juan F. Déniz

55

Note: Saint Teilo’s bell by Willam Linnard

259

New light on French enamel painting (1630–1660): tondi as models for the decoration of watches by Catherine Cardinal 69

Salisbury, Wells and Rye – the great clocks revisited by Keith Scobie-Youngs

327

Sixty years of AHS study tours by Peter de Clercq

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The universe on the table. The Buschman Renaissance clock of the National Maritime Museum by Víctor Pérez Álvarez

342

Early watches—The argument over priority in Italy and Germany by Günther Oestmann

92

The story behind the Geneva Clock Company, their trademark JTC and their miniature Swiss carriage clocks by Thomas R. Wotruba

361

Welsh time balls and time guns by William Linnard

98

Usher & Cole workbooks by Terence Camerer Cuss

368

An unusual electrical time switch on a turret clock signed Selfe of Greenwich by Chris McKay

103

The history of Josiah Emery’s lever escapement gold watch No. 929 by Søren Andersen & Poul Darnell

375

Henry Jones of London: his birth, marriage and family by Andrew James

108

Museum profile: The Museum of Horology and Mechanical Music in Oberhofen, Switzerland by Fortunat Müller-Maerki 380

A relic of the Gold Rush by David Read

112 Picture Gallery by Peter Gosnell 388

Jacques Goullons (c. 1600–1671), master clockmaker on the Île de la Cité, Paris by Catherine Cardinal

185

An early Gothic Hausuhr by John A. Robey

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William Shortland the Elder of Stony Stratford (c. 1690–1744). A hitherto undocumented clockmaker, trained by Joseph Knibb at Hanslope by Edward Hudson

202

Louis Ourry (1643–1699). A Huguenot clockmaker in Paris and an early bedchamber clock from his workshop by Erik Wauters and Chris Schouten

485

Showtime at Oxnead: The timekeepers depicted in The Paston Treasure by Jonathan Betts

215

The John Smeaton family from York and their horological connections. Part 1 – The York years by Chris Watson

504

Edward John Dent’s glass springs, archive and technical analysis combined by Jenny Bulstrode and Andrew Meek

225

Drocourt’s porcelain tributes to Romantic Love and Royal Victory. Art-historical appreciation of rare carriage clocks by Larry L. Fabian

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Top hits of the eighteenth century on bell-playing clocks by Marieke Lefeber-Morsman 244

Timepieces in Victorian narrative painting by Louise Cooling 528

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Two June 2019 ………………………………………………………..… 149–296

Three September 2019 …………………………………………………... 297–444

Four December 2019 …………………………………………………… 445–592

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VOLUME FORTY ANTIQUARIAN HOROLOGY

AND THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANTIQUARIAN HOROLOGICAL SOCIETY Issued Quarterly to Members

EDITOR: Dr. PETER DE CLERCQ

LIST OF ARTICLES

A snapshot of the watchmaking industry in England through the lens of the 1881 census by Darlah Thomas ...................... 36 The John Smeaton family from York and their horological connections. Part 2 – The Leeds years by Chris Watson ................. 59 Marine chronometers: the rapid adoption of new technology by East India captains in the period 1770–1792 on over 580 voyages by Simon C. Davidson ........................... 76 The clockmaker’s art in the service of crime: the so-called ‘Thomas disaster’ on 11 December 1875 in Bremerhaven by Günther Oestmann ................................. 92 Three medieval clockmakers: children of Mercury by William Linnard & John A. Robey ..................................................... 102 David Ramsay, c. 1580–1659 by Adrian A. Finch, Valerie J. Finch and Anthony W. Finch ..................................................... 177 Chronometers on the 1821–26 Royal Navy African Survey, by Stuart Jennings 200 Some further early clocks from Nuremberg by Dietrich Matthes and Rocío Sánchez-Barrios .................................................. 215 Bicentenary of the Car of History: A monumental chariot clock in the US Capitol by Juan F. Déniz .................................. 231 William Weichert of Cardiff: his time ball and chronometers by William Linnard 244 Museum Profile: Halim Time and Glass Museum, Evanston, Illinois by Bob Frishman .............................................. 253

Big Ben. What’s in the name? And a warning to researchers, by Chris McKay ............................................................... 260 Robert Savery, clockmaker of Taunton, Somerset (1788–1865) by Bill Edmondson ............................................................... 265 William Graham: clockmaker and man of his times by Ann McBroom ................... 320 An early use of zinc in the compensation pendulum by Michael T. Wright ............ 343 William Whitaker and William Shreeve: Dialmakers of Halifax, West Yorkshire by John A. Robey ........................................ 360 An unusual eight-day longcase clock with its original drawings, by Simon C. Davidson ................................................................ 377 Museum profile: The horological collection of the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan ....... 384 The 1815 sale of Alexander Cumming’s property: some evidence from book history by Rebekah Higgitt ................................ 392 Loseby box chronometer No.104 by Phillip Arnott .................................................... 396 Was there high-quality, wholesale movement manufacture in seventeenth-century London? by Jon Parker ........... 469 Time before the oscillator. Horology in the thirteenth century manuscripts of the Libros del Saber by Sebastian Whitestone ............................................................... 487 Carriage clock porcelain. Artistic pedigrees hiding in plain view by Larry L. Fabian 501

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Dividing plates and wheel-cutting machines: some seventeenth-century evidence by Anthony Turner ..................................... 514 Mathurin Sougé: An early French pendule religieuse with Dutch striking design by Sunny Dzik and Wim van Klaveren ..... 525

Museum profile: clocks in the Zuylenburgh collection in Utrecht by Doug Bateman 536 Children of Mercury: an addendum by William Linnard & John A. Robey ....... 545 Picture Gallery: A turret clock postcard of 1929 ...................................................... 398

Articles in Antiquarian Horology Volume 41 (2020)

Getting the right time. Liverpool’s contribution in the mid-nineteenth century. Parts 1 and 2 by Steve and Darlah Thomas 20, 214

Bahne Bonniksen, inventor and manufacturer of the karrusel watch. A biography of a famous Coventry watchmaker. Parts 1-4 by Clare Woodward 44, 235, 319, 531

Spiridion & Son, Cardiff, 1844–1964 by William Linnard 57

Carriage clocks identified with Dent and Paris in their signatures, by Thomas R. Wotruba 68

Thomas Knifton, beginnings, middle, ends by James Nye and Caitlín Doherty 76

The water clock at Loch Head Dinnet by Chris McKay 83

A monumental longcase clock by Domenico De Vita, Naples, dated 1891, by Marisa Addomine 89

English lantern clocks with an original balance by John A. Robey 172

Revelation in revision. How alterations to a woodcut block change the history of Huygens’s pendulum clock invention, by Sebastian Whitestone 177

Another Diamond, by Martyn Pettifer 209

Ray Mellor and the Cabot Watch & Clock Company – a brief oral history, by Jonathan Hughes 247

The earliest masters of the Paris Clockmakers’ Corporation: a new account based on archival sources and surviving works, by Catherine Cardinal 341

Time on the dashboard. Car clocks from Germany by Johannes Graf 357

Should Breguet’s box chronometer No. 2741 be run? The potential of decision-making protocols in horological conservation, by Peter Toot 373

A miniature time ball from Synchronome by Norman Heckenberg and Anthony Roberts 383

A chronometer watch, signed Sidney Better, rediscovered by Phillip Arnott 389

A Florentine clock from 1546, showing hours, minutes and seconds, by Marisa Addomine 396

The Adam clock — the Suffolk connection by John A. Robey 462

A comparative analysis of twelve manuscripts of Giovanni Dondi’s astrarium, by Guido Dresti and Rosario Mosello 473

The Wellington clock tower of Swanage by Chris McKay 505

The Chandos Delander by Jeremy Evans and Ann McBroom, with appendices by Richard Garnier and Guy Boney 521

Nicolas Hanet — a new discovery, by Ben Hordijk 539

Celebrating a tower clock by Jennifer Speake and Anthony Turner 546